The Federal Government and the World Bank have partnered to improve the knowledge of teachers in the federal technical colleges in Nigeria.Information Guide Nigeria

Andrew David Adeno, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja while declaring open a workshop on the development of a structure for the in-service training of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teachers and instructors.

Also speaking, the permanent secretary who was represented by the Director of Technology and Science Education, Grace Jakko, said strengthening technical schools would increase availability of competent and motivated technical teachers and instructors.NYSC Portal

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DAILY TRUST reports that the skills development system in Nigeria must adapt to the emerging trends of globalisation for economic viability, especially in relevant skills for the formal and informal sectors of the economy.

Jakko said, “All the federal technical teachers in the 27 technical schools across the federation will be trained and captured in this component and the five states that are participating in the IDEAS Project, each of the state has three technical colleges and all the teachers in these technical colleges will be captured.”

Also speaking, the National Project Coordinator, IDEAS Project, Blessing Ogwu said the collaboration was to develop a comprehensive structure for training technical teachers in Nigeria.JAMB Result

Mistura Rufai, a World Bank consultant, said the entire IDEAS Project was about $200m and that teachers the training was a component of it, with about $25m to $30m to be spent on training teachers in Nigeria.

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