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University Don Urges FG, States To Prioritise Vocational Education
A Professor in Industrial Education, Prof Isaac Dokubo, has called on state and federal governments to pay special attention to vocational skills by stepping up the 26 per cent United Nations’ yearly budgetary recommendation for vocational education.
He also urged Nigerians to return to vocational skills and depend less on blue collar jobs.
Dokubo gave the charge while delivering the 82nd Inaugural Lecture on the topic: “Man And Vocation, Inseparable Twins: The Vocationist And Construction Cost Analyst’s Perspective” at the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, yesterday.
He noted that instead of the 26 per cent recommended by UNESCO, Nigeria has always budgeted less than 10 per cent for vocational education.
He described the relationship between man and vocational skills as an inseparable twin, saying this is so because from childhood till death man will always engage in one vocational skill or the other.
According to him, “Vocational education is as old as man, as shown by the various crafts in the different communities.
While commending the Rivers State University for establishing the Department of Vocational Education known as the Entrepreneurship Development Centre, he emphasised the need for all lecturers to go through a training in vocational and technical education in order for them to acquire necessary skills of life.
“That is the only way that lecturers can confidently, effectively impart these skills on students, who are interested in vocational or technical education.
“Yearly, the number of graduating students produced from the various universities runs into millions, yet many are not gainfully employed.
“The only way to reduce unemployment in the country is to encourage vocational and technical education in schools, so that most of these students after graduating are self- reliant,” Dokubo said.
Earlier, the Vice Chancellor, Rivers State University, Prof Nlerum Sunday Okogbule, stated that inaugural lectures play important roles in the life of any university, adding this is why the school has maintained a tradition of having it done back to back.
Okogbule stressed that the university is very much interested in vocational education, remarking that it is one of the reasons why vocational skills education centre has recently been commissioned in the university.
By: Susan Serekara-Nwikhana
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