FG Releases N1bn to Modernise NABTEB TVET Curricula — Alausa

The Federal Government has invested N1 billion through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to modernise Nigeria’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) curriculum, the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has disclosed.

Alausa made this known in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Ikharo Attah, as the government intensifies efforts to reposition technical and vocational education as a major pathway to employment, entrepreneurship and economic productivity.

According to the minister, the N1 billion intervention has resulted in the development of 27 new National Occupational Standards and the review of four existing standards, bringing the total number of reviewed standards to 31.

Alausa said the reform was necessary to ensure that technical education programmes remained relevant to industry needs, technological developments and emerging economic opportunities.

“Technical and vocational education is fundamentally about skills. Everything within the polytechnic system is ultimately geared towards developing competencies that create pathways to employment, entrepreneurship, and productivity,” he said.

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The minister explained that the revised standards would provide a more integrated skills-development pathway covering artisan-level training, National Certificates, Ordinary National Diploma and Higher National Diploma programmes.

He added that the intervention was designed to ensure graduates of technical institutions acquire practical and market-relevant skills capable of improving employability, promoting entrepreneurship and boosting national productivity.

The curriculum reform is also part of a wider Federal Government plan to strengthen the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), which regulates and supports polytechnics, monotechnics and other technical institutions.

Alausa disclosed that the Federal Ministry of Education had engaged KPMG Advisory Services to conduct a comprehensive assessment of NBTE and develop a new organisational structure, governance model and operating framework for the agency.

He said the assessment would identify gaps and opportunities in NBTE’s governance, organisational design, operating processes, workforce capacity and service delivery.

According to him, the findings will form the basis of a transformation roadmap aimed at making NBTE a more effective regulator and strategic enabler of Nigeria’s TVET ecosystem.

“The success of Nigeria’s TVET reforms depends not only on curriculum and infrastructure, but also on the strength and effectiveness of the institutions responsible for implementation and oversight,” Alausa said.

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He added that strengthening NBTE was essential to achieving President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and the broader goal of producing a skilled, productive and globally competitive workforce.

Providing an industry perspective, Oluwole Adelokun, Partner, Strategy and Customer Solutions at KPMG Africa and KPMG Nigeria, said the assessment had identified both structural challenges and opportunities within Nigeria’s TVET system.

Adelokun disclosed that more than 55 per cent of assessed curricula across disciplines, including engineering, science, arts and design, were outdated.

The Federal Government's latest intervention is therefore expected to bring technical education programmes closer to current industry requirements while giving students access to skills that can improve their employment and entrepreneurial opportunities.