13th September, 2017
The Enugu House of Assembly Committee on Education says it will ensure that vocational institutions in the state are adequately equipped.
Mr Matthew Ugwueze, the Chairman of the committee, made this known on Wednesday when the committee paid an oversight visit to the Science, Technical and Vocational School Management Board.
He said that the lawmakers would assist the board to ensure that the state’s vocational colleges were provided with the right equipment to function optimally.
Ugwueze underscored the need to ensure that the nation’s vocational institutions were truly technical.
“Here, we do our vocational study in theory while overseas, they emphasise the technical aspect.
“If you go abroad you will see what is happening there.
“The board chairman worked in General Motors in the United States and if you go there, you will see what small boys are doing technically,’’ Ugwueze said.
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Earlier, the Chairman of the board, Mr Obi Kama, enumerated the challenges of the colleges to include lack of core technical teachers, cultism, indiscipline and electricity.
Kama urged the state government to approve the recruitment of core technical teachers for the 32 functional vocational institutions in the state.
“We have the problem of electricity; some of our schools do not have electricity and without electricity, there are some tools that you cannot operate.”
Kama, however, said that the board had introduced a code of conduct that guides and regulates the activities of teachers in the school.