KADUNA - The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has said it trained over 9,000 staff in its 13 newly established Development Centres across the country in the last seven years.
NBTE’s Executive Secretary, Dr, Nuru Yakubu, made the disclosure on Friday at the close of a five-day Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for some Staff under the Board of Guidance and Counseling. Yakubu said establishing the 13 Staff Development Centres (SDC’s) was informed by the growing need for re-skilling and up skilling of TVET Staff in areas of need.He said the centres were established through collaboration with UNESCO-Nigeria TVE Project across the six geo-political regions in two phases. According to him, seven centres were set up under the phase one,
while six others under the phase two of the programme.
He said the just concluded workshop was designed to train those directly responsible for Guidance and Counseling in Polytechnics and Colleges of Education. Yakubu said 28 staff drawn from selected TVET institutions across the country were trained by renown scholars of the field from Canada and a UNESCO lead consultant. The workshop, organised under the Phase two of the TVE revitalisation project was aimed at guiding students and parents to make decision on preference for TVE to general secondary education.
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