By Vyktur Johnny
Although this article focuses on the student and the classroom, the discourse should resonate with our educationists, policy makers and the CHANGE Government. Vocational skills training improvement and entrepreneurship education in our secondary schools,university and Technical schools will help create jobs and build minds ready to develop themselves and the nation. Excerpt:
As it turns out, not really. For one thing, people have a huge and diverse range of different skills and learning styles.
Not everyone is good at math, biology, history and other traditional subjects that characterize college-level work. Not everyone is fascinated by Greek mythology, or enamored with Victorian literature, or enraptured by classical music. Some students are mechanical; others are artistic. Some focus best in a lecture hall or classroom; still others learn best by doing, and would thrive in the studio, workshop or shop floor.
And not everyone goes to college.
Dr.Bright amirinze, an erstwhile scholar from the River state university of science and technology laid emphasis on the 3 categorical stages of human development how there vocational skills can emanate as associated by their laws.
1.THE ENCEPHALOCODAL LAW: this connotes how the infant tend to relate to his field of work by means of the brain.
2.PROXIMODISTAL: This is a chronological stage of the child that the development of the child must first emanates from the child himself .
3.CEPHALOCAUDAL LAW: this law is the concept that development(i.e motor progression/motor development)which the child developes the ability of becoming handy in his environment.
This basically expatiate how one tend to develope his life using different devices either by natural means of growth or by effort.
The Nigeria National bureau of statistics has reported 5.1% drop in new formal jobs created in the fourth quater of 2014 compared to the previous quater. from the Nig Bureau of statistics (NBS) show that about 68% of high students attend college. That means over 30% graduate with neither academic nor job skills.
But even the 68% aren’t doing so well. Almost 40% of students who begin four-year college programs don’t complete them, which translates into a whole lot of wasted time, wasted money, and burdensome student loan debt. Of those who do finish college, one-third or more will end up in jobs they could have had without a four-year degree.
The NBS found that 37% of currently employed college grads are doing work for which only a high school degree is required.
....The demise of vocational education at the high school level has bred a skills shortage in manufacturing today, and with it a wealth of career opportunities for both under-employed college grads and high school students looking for direct pathways to interesting, lucrative careers. Many of the jobs in manufacturing are attainable through apprenticeships, on-the-job training, and vocational programs offered at community colleges.
They don’t require expensive, four-year degrees for which many students are not suited.
And contrary to what many parents believe, students who get job specific skills in high school and choose vocational careers often go on to get additional education. The modern workplace favors those with solid, transferable skills who are open to continued learning. Most young people today will have many jobs over the course of their lifetime, and a good number will have multiple careers that require new and more sophisticated skills.
Just a few decades ago, our public education system provided able opportunities for young people to learn about careers in manufacturing and other vocational trades. Yet, today, high-schoolers hear barely a whisper about the many doors that the vocational education path can open. The “college-for-everyone” mentality has pushed awareness of other possible career paths to the margins. The cost to the individuals and the economy as a whole is high. If we want everyone’s kid to succeed, we need to bring vocational education back to the core of high school learning."
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