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A Critique of Technical Education in Nigeria

Technical Education is a kind of education explicitly designed to respond to the technical or vocational needs of a community. Its content focuses on the principles underlying trades, crafts, vocational training, and the engineering sciences. In the Nigerian context, technical education will be confined to the type of education that is provided by such formal institutions as Trade Schools, Technical Institutes, Colleges of Technology and Universities. The main criticism of the educational system currently existing in Nigeria has been centered on the fact that it has not been geared effectively enough to the realities of the labor market in Nigeria. It is not adequately employmentoriented. Education in rural as well as in urban primary schools is, unfortunately, academically oriented at present. It emphasizes the preparation for higher levels of formal schooling. The school environment is therefore different from that of the rural setting, where agriculture predominates. Parents send their children to school, not to make them better farmers, but rather to provide for them an escape from the traditional Nigerian rural community. An educated child in the rural setting cultivates the ambition to leave that setting for the urban. In order to understand the present status of technical education in Nigeria, it is important to reflect on the influence of colonial rule on Nigeria's educational set-up. Under the British Colonial Administration (1900-1960) the kind of educational policy to be developed in Nigeria was dictated by the colonial administration. The British manis psychologically incapable of acting naturally towards an educated African. He seems to get on better with the more uneducated Africans whom he extols as the "noble savage." The educated African was always a very unhappy man under the Union Jack [1, pp. 187-188]. It was, therefore, consistent with the nature of the British man to neglect education, especially technical education, as much as could be safely avoided. With the increasing importance of engineers necessary to keep