Fubara advocates for shift to skills-based education

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has called for much accent connected vocational and method acquisition to equip young Nigerians with applicable skills for employment and self-reliance.

Fubara made the telephone on Wednesday at an lawsuit successful Rumuola, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.

The politician said the country’s absorption connected certificates and degrees, without capable attraction to applicable skills, has contributed to unemployment and mediocre economical growth.

He said Nigeria needs to instrumentality to the thought of the 6-3-3-4 acquisition system, which was designed to springiness students vocational and method skills based connected their abilities and interests.

Fubara said students should beryllium capable to get utile skills earlier leaving secondary schoolhouse and usage them to make jobs oregon go self-employed.

He said polytechnics were established to assistance radical with method abilities make their skills and lend to society.

“The polytechnic strategy was designed successful specified a mode that if you’re talented with your hands; if you’re a method person, you tin spell determination and larn more, physique your skills truthful that you tin adhd worth to our society”, helium said.

The politician said entrepreneurship centres are intended to assistance students dev...