NABTEB plans collaboration with schools to promote skill acquisition
Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), Olatunde Aworanti, has declared that the board would collaborate with public and private secondary schools across the country as part of efforts to promote skill acquisition and make students employable after graduation
Aworanti, who made the declaration in Benin City at the weekend during a sensitisation workshop organized for principals and proprietors of private and secondary schools in the state, said the partnership was prompted by the urgent need to prepare and empower school leavers for the harsh economic realities.
The initiative, according to him, had been successfully applied in Ghana to revamp its economy and urged the managers of secondary education in the state to play a complementary role by integrating vocational and technical subjects into their school curricular.
While pledging the support of the board to certify secondary school leavers in basic trades through its various examinations, Aworanti said this has become necessary in order to make them economically self-reliant and reduce youth restiveness in the country.
“The need for all school leavers to be equipped with survival skills that will enable them cope with emerging challenges of the current technological age cannot be over-emphasized.
“Therefore, I invite you and other principals of secondary schools nationwide to key into the quest to make the nation’s students employable and globally competitive after their graduation from secondary and tertiary levels of education by enrolling them for NABTEB examinations,” Aworanti said.
Edo State Commissioner for Higher Education, Washington Usifo, in his address commended the board for extending it programmes to secondary education. He also pledged the support of the state government towards their implementation.
Aworanti, who made the declaration in Benin City at the weekend during a sensitisation workshop organized for principals and proprietors of private and secondary schools in the state, said the partnership was prompted by the urgent need to prepare and empower school leavers for the harsh economic realities.
The initiative, according to him, had been successfully applied in Ghana to revamp its economy and urged the managers of secondary education in the state to play a complementary role by integrating vocational and technical subjects into their school curricular.
While pledging the support of the board to certify secondary school leavers in basic trades through its various examinations, Aworanti said this has become necessary in order to make them economically self-reliant and reduce youth restiveness in the country.
“The need for all school leavers to be equipped with survival skills that will enable them cope with emerging challenges of the current technological age cannot be over-emphasized.
“Therefore, I invite you and other principals of secondary schools nationwide to key into the quest to make the nation’s students employable and globally competitive after their graduation from secondary and tertiary levels of education by enrolling them for NABTEB examinations,” Aworanti said.
Edo State Commissioner for Higher Education, Washington Usifo, in his address commended the board for extending it programmes to secondary education. He also pledged the support of the state government towards their implementation.
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