TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (TVET): A VIABLE STRATEGY FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) faces enormous demands globally because of the abnormal state of joblessness and the quest for technological advancement, industrialization, and economic development. TVET has indisputable impacts on national development which is understood as associated with a range of socio-economic imperatives that include challenges of poverty and unemployment. Despite the abundance of natural resources, poverty remains prevalent in Nigeria. For TVET to achieve its objectives of enabling learners to catch up with the ever-changing living standard in a fast-growing technological world and creating jobs for sustainable living, it must be strengthened through global partnerships because no government can singlehandedly shoulder this enormous responsibility. It is with this understanding that this paper seeks to examine the need for global partnerships in TVET, roles of TVET in the global economy, the necessity for global partnerships in a national economy, the effects of youth unemployment on national development, and TVET as a viable strategy for poverty alleviation in Nigeria. The paper recommends that global partnerships should be encouraged. Sharing of ideas in terms of policies, strategies, curriculum, and implementation between global TVET institutions, industries, and stakeholders—aimed at ensuring that learners are abreast with developments in the world of work – should be implemented.