POVERTY REDUCTION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

¹Okorieocha Christopher N. & ²Taneh, Anthony Nadum

¹Department of Industrial Technology Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike,

²Department of Electrical Electronic Engineering, Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, Rivers State,

Email: Okorieochachris@Yahoo.Com, Nadumtaneh@Yahoo.Com

ABSTRACT

This paper x-rayed poverty reduction and national development through technical vocational education and training (TVET) in Nigeria. It reviewed the present status of TVET, government effort to revamp and revitalize TVET. The study further addressed poverty, classes of poverty, kinds of poverty reduction and its consequences to national development. The study recommended that, in other to combat the negative impact of poverty in Nigeria that funds should be provided for TVET institutions for effective implementation of the program, government should involve organizations and industries in the formulation of the curriculum and in the certification of skills offered; and the World Bank intervention programs in technical vocational education and training in some states of the federation should be extended to other states not presently included to ensure availability of skilled men and women in every part of the country for national development.