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No fewer than 120 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teachers across Nigeria are undergoing a Singapore-backed capacity-building programme aimed at improving the quality of technical education and equipping instructors with modern teaching and assessment skills.
Eko Hot Blog reports that the initiative, tagged the “Train the Trainers (Pedagogy & Assessment) Programme,” is a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), and the Institute of Education, Singapore.
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The 10-day intensive training is being implemented in two batches. The first cohort of 60 federal and state TVET teachers is currently undergoing training in Abuja, while another 60 participants will take part in the second phase scheduled to hold in Lagos.
Speaking during the programme, the National Coordinator of Special Programmes in the Office of the Minister of Education, Adebayo Onigbanjo, said the initiative is designed to equip instructors with globally recognised teaching methods that they will, in turn, transfer to other educators through a cascading training model.
He said the programme forms part of the Federal Government’s broader effort to reposition technical and vocational education as a key driver of economic growth, industrial development and job creation.
According to him, the training became necessary following the overwhelming response to the government’s technical skills initiative, which attracted more than 1.3 million registrations when it was launched last year.
“We need more trainers. Those being trained today will return to their schools and train their colleagues, allowing us to scale up capacity across the country,” Onigbanjo said.
He explained that the partnership with Singapore is intended to develop a new generation of highly skilled technical instructors capable of preparing students with industry-relevant competencies.
Technical Assistant to the Minister of Education on TVET, Dr. Nabila Mohamed, said the programme would help shift technical education from theory-based instruction to competency-based practical learning.
She noted that participants would learn modern instructional techniques that would better prepare students for employment and improve learning outcomes.
Manager of the Academic Pedagogy Programme at Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education Services, Choo Poh Lian, said the programme focuses on strengthening teaching methods rather than teaching specific trades.
She explained that participants are being trained on practical demonstration techniques, student engagement, effective feedback and competency-based assessment aligned with global industry standards.
One of the participants, Odebode Adegoke of the Federal Science and Technical College, Ijebu-Imushin, Ogun State, described the programme as timely, saying it had exposed instructors to practical teaching approaches that would improve technical education delivery in Nigeria.
The training, which runs from June 29 to July 10, is expected to strengthen the capacity of technical education instructors nationwide and improve the quality of vocational training across the country.
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