NABTEB collaborates with secondary schools on TVET

The National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) has come up with a plan to collaborate with public and private secondary schools across the country in its effort to promote skill acquisition and make Nigerian students employable after graduation.


The Registrar and Chief Executive of the board, Dr. Olatunde Aworanti, disclosed this in Benin during a sensitisation workshop organised for principals and proprietors of over 300 private and secondary schools in the state.

He explained that the partnership was prompted by the urgent need to prepare and empower school leavers for the harsh economic realities the country was facing.

Aworanti, while urging the managers of secondary education in the state to play a complementary role by integrating vocational and technical subjects into their school curricular, said the initiative had been successfully applied in Ghana to revamp its economy.

“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. He pledged the support of the board to certify secondary school leavers in basic trades, through its various certificate examinations to make them economically self-reliant and reduce youth restiveness in the country.