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The
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has reviewed the
curricula and course specification for several programmes at National
Diploma, Higher National Diploma and professional post-HND levels, the
board’s acting secretary, Ade Ojo Aimola, has said yesterday in Akure.

Mr Aimola, who
spoke at a workshop on technical education, said the board decided to
review course specification covering engineering, environmental
studies, business and related studies in the nation’s 278 polytechnics,
in order to keep abreast with modern day development in the fields. He,
however, said the board was worried about obsolete nature of curricula
in technical and vocational schools across the country, saying NBTE
would soon begin the review of curricula for technical schools and
colleges in the country as well.

“The review became
imperative because the last review of the curricula was last done in
2002,” he said, adding that the federal ministry of education, NBTE,
and African Development Bank also intended to evaluate and fill the
identified gaps in the selected curricula to meet national development
goals, as identified by Africa Development Fund in 2009. Some of the
courses to be affected, according to him, included Electrical
Installation, Radio and Television Work, Computer Studies, English,
Mathematics, Technical Drawing, Entrepreneurship, and Information and
Communication Technology.

The NBTE and other
stakeholders in technical education, including the federal government,
had invited experts to Akure, the Ondo State capital, to brainstorm on
what are those things to be put in the curricula that would bring them
up to date to meet the needs of more recent technologies.

The Director of
NBTE, James Aboi said the skills training and vocational education
institutions were created with the goal of poverty reduction and its
subsequent eradication in the country.