Beat unemployment through vocational education —Don

By Emma Una

CALABAR— PROFESSOR Patrick Egbule, Delta State University lecturer and President, Vocational and Technical Educators of Nigeria, has advocated an increase in vocational and technical education as a way of creating jobs to check the high rate of unemployment in the country.

The don said that vocational and technical education if given the necessary attention  can also fast track the country’s recovery from economic recession by boosting the production capacity in the country rather than depending on importation of virtually everything used in the  country.

Professor Egbule, who spoke  in Calabar, Cross River State, at the close of the  25th International Conference of Vocational and Technical Educators that held in the University of Calabar, said that the  economic recession and high unemployment  rate  were  due to the over dependence on imported products that can even be manufactured or produced  locally with the necessary skills.

 

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