Abstract
Technology education is of immense importance to present day Nigeria,because of its potentials to produce the needed
skills, knowledge and competences required to steer the engine of development. Therefore, the paper examined: challenges
confronting TVET institutions in developing employees; responsibilities expected of industries in helping TVET institutions
and mechanism for reengineer TVET programme. Descriptive survey research design was employed in carried out the studs.
data were obtained using structured questionnaire from 197 TVET lecturers/instructors and TVET graduates in Lagos State.
The collected data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions while independen1
samples 1-test was employed to test null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The reliability coefficient for the study was
.88 using Cronbach alpha reliability tests. The findings revealed: inability of TVET institutions to track employment destination
of their graduates, consequently, valuable feedback inputs to be factored into the review of curricula and training packages
are lost: There is no significant difference between the mean responses of respondents regarding responsibilities expected
of industries by gender and working experience: the mechanism for reengineering TVET programme include that industrial
policy should shifts to align education systems with economic development towards effective manpower development. Based
on the findings,it was recommended that government should increase funding to support TVET,while TVET institutions must
deliver flexible and demand-driven training.
Keywords:Reengineering,Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Employees,
Economic,Industrial Development
Publication Date: 2019-12-05