NABTEB urges enrolment in vocational education

THE National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) has decried the low level of enrolments in technical and vocational education and training, saying such could hamper the country’s technological development.

Registrar of the Board, Dr Olatunde Aworanti stated this recently when he released the 2014 May/June National Business Certificate and National Technical Certificate examination results at its national headquartres in Benin, the Edo State Capital.

He disclosed that out of a total of 81,200 candidates who registered for the examination, 79,495 candidates sat for the examination in engineering, construction, miscellaneous and business trades, which had the highest enrolment of 39,745 candidates.

Aworanti said that 29,129 candidates scored five credits and above, including English and Mathematics, representing 36.64 per cent in the NBC/NTC examinations adding that the Board recorded 1,952 cases of examination malpractice, representing 2.46 per cent as against 5,108 cases in 2013, adding that it was a decrease of 3,156 cases representing 61.8 per cent.

He attributed the decrease to the introduction of e-learning packaging for candidates, intensive monitoring by all stakeholders and the use of the biometric data capturing system, however, lamented that the amount of candidates registered for its examinations were below expectation.

“The three tiers of government should embark on youths empowerment programme through which the working class/out-of-school candidates will be opportuned to learn a trade for a living.

“This training could be done through skill acquisition programmes to increase the standard of living, reduce cost of living, improve labour force and life expectancy,” the registrar said.

He also advocated a synergy between the public and private sectors in the promotion of technical and vocational education and training.

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