April 17, (THEWILL) – No fewer than 25 industries have decided to partner the Ogun State Government on training for students of technical institutions on how to operate modern equipment for production.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Technical Education, Prof Joseph Odemuyiwa, disclosed this during an interview at his office in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Odemuyiwa said that the 25 industries signed an agreement with the state government to train the students in 30 per cent theory and 70 per cent practical operations of modern equipment in order to be productive in the future.
He said that such training became imperative to correct the people’s mindset and to make them know that technical education was not for the brainless and the students stand a better chance to use the skills as their livelihood or get employed in the industries.
The special adviser, who argued that if students were properly taught how to operate modern equipment they would be able to compete with the Chinese and Indians for employment, blamed past administrations in Ogun for the poor state of technical education in the state.
Stressing that Governor Dapo Abiodun is partnering the World Bank to develop the education system in Ogun, he said, “We have 25 industries that have signed an agreement with us to collaborate in training our students so that we have 30 per cent theoretical programmes and 70 percent practical programmes in the relevant industries so that our students will have jobs waiting for them.,
“You cannot be industrial without being mechanical. In industries you have to use machines and you have to use some equipment in the production line and we need to have technical artisans that will be in charge of these.”
“Today we have the problem of bringing in Chinese and Indians to work in our industries because they continue to claim that we don’t have qualified skilled labour. That gap will be filled by technical education so that industries will now have that skilled labour.”
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