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EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: AN IMMINENT DISASTER

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Our educational sets up in Nigeria are bad. In the set up, we create nothing but test-takers and exam-holist…cramming their minds with useless facts which have no meaning or use for the student to restate in test and examinations…..

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TECHNICAL TEACHER GUIDANCE ROLE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL SET UP

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Guidance as a subject matter is a new corner in our schools system and the society: recently introduce and being appropriated in colleges of education and the university as an innovation in our educational system… preparing and directing a person free will…useful assessment of the pupil/student adjustment in class… so that they function within limits of their abilities ….work through adolescence to function as a well adjusted adult member of society…

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EVALUATION OF PRACTICAL SKILL IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION THROUGH PROCESS/PRODUCT TECHNIQUES’

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not many teachers understand the meaning of process/product technique of evaluation of practical skill:....student are encouraged to buy and present ready-made materials for their grades in practical skills. ...teachers agreed that the combination of both process and product evaluation technique is the most effective method in evaluating skills.

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TECHNICAL TEACHER IN NIGERIA DILEMMA

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Experience has shown that the Vocational/Technical teacher (processes and product) teaching in the school workshop/laboratory aims for success; while the other teachers observed in classroom interactions with students aims mostly for the exercise of judgment generally....

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VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION AT THE PRIMARY AND POST PRIMARY LEVEL OF EDUCATION

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The general rule observed in Nigeria educational policies progress report of Northern Nigeria 1952; Review of Educational system in Eastern Nigeria, 1962; The Taiwo committee, 1968; Recommendation of the 1969,... is that all attempts at curriculum development have to start of a more functional processes in terms of the needs of the child and the community i.e. to start by accepting the challenges of competence training at primary school level.

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RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA'S TERTIARY EDUCATION SYSTEM

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closure of our institution of higher (Tertiary) learning for at least one year renovation for re-direction in policy and curricular of tertiary education system, this in view of the reported rejection {of our graduates of Tertiary Education} on the ground of increasing incapability of rendering qualitative services in their disciplines... because the government of Nigeria doesn’t want to be embarrassed with spate of rejection of our Nigerian graduate.

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REPOSITIONING OF NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN THIS 21ST CENTURY

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The world today is different, as we knew it before, courtesy science and Technology -that made her a village…do we refuse to make changes that the young Nigerian will grow in...? … the old cloths (our educational set up) are bad; they just do not serve their purpose any longer…In the set up, we create nothing but test-takers and exam-holist…. People cut corners and use quacks..., Banks misuse depositors’ money..., and appointments are not by merits… Governors not obeying legislated set Laws...some professor(s) who are only interested in crushing dreams, stealing ideas and validating their own ego....

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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN NIGERIA ROOTS AND PROBLEMS

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we learned that Nigerians came in touch Firstly with merchants, next came Religious nationalism later Imperial Government, politically; lately education, introduced for training citizens for the Imperial selfishness not to serve in the supply of trained, authentic work force to develop the Nigeria economy but imperial interest. These yielded the present derailment in cutting corners, lack of foresight in educational matters, religious extremism, ethnical politics, quarter systems, incompetent legislators we are struggling to correct with less sincerity's to Vocational Technical Education.

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Science for Thinking and the Science for Reasoning

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when Students cannot recognise and be able to see the immediate use of science or mathematics [Subject theory] to the need of everyday life with practical approach, definitely will be the first step to wrong answers, and to what the theory of such science is all about[instead cramming their minds with useless facts which has no mining or use for the student to restate in test and examinations]

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AutoMechanic Programme Evaluation For Industrial Technical Education in Senior Secondary Schools, in NIGERIA

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syllabus on Automobile mechanic,-with-cultural exploitation,-plus-globalise industrial technology,-made today the- syllabus blurring without much meaning to the economic and social development, Changes can negatively be seen in the functional education,-which the National Policy on Educaton advocated for-for- forty six (46)years after the declaration of technical education,-in Nigeria-three recent goal trends....

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