The goals of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (WET) shall be to:

          a.       Provide trained manpower in the applied sciences, technology and business particularly at craft, advance craft and technical levels,

          b.       provide the technical knowledge and vocational skills necessary for agricultural, commercial and economic development and

          c.       give training and impart the necessary skills to individual for self- reliance economically.

Technical Colleges

In pursuant of the above goals:

a.       The main features of the curricula activities for technical colleges shall be structured in foundation and trade modules.

b.       The curriculum for each trade shall consist of five components:

          i.        General education.

          ii.       Theory and related courses.

          iii.      Workshop practice.

          iv.      Industrial training / production work

          v.       Entrepreneurial training.

c.       For effective participation of students in practical works, the teacher students’ ratio shall be kept at 1:20.

d.       Trainees completing Technical College programmes shall have three options:

          i.        Secure employment either at the end of the whole course or after completing one or more modules of employable skills.

          ii.       Set up their own businesses and become self employed and be able to employ others.

          iii.      Pursue further education in advance craft/technical programmes and in post-secondary (Tertiary) technical institutions such as Polytechnics or Colleges of Education (Technical) and Universities.

Every State and FCT shal encourage, at least one, of its Technical Colleges to offer advanced craft courses to prepare master craftsmen for supervisory positions in industries and in teaching.

Length of course in the Technical College, like other Senior Secondary Schools, shall be three years for the craft level (NTC/NBC) and one year for the advanced craft level (ANTC/ANBC).

Every Technical College shall establish and operate a production unit for on-the-job training of students and for commercial activities to sustain college operations.