Mr. Sunday Mukoro, Managing Director of Coscharis Technologies, has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in technical education to make Nigeria competitive in the 21st Century.
According to him a legislated state of emergency in technical education would be an apt response to long-standing prejudices in the Nigerian education system
In a statement to Technology Times, Mr. Mukoro said that the call is based on the fact that the pace of technology development, at the global stage, which he reckons is so fast that it has rendered insignificant the yearly meagre budgets, in the past years of less than 1% of the GDP to the entire education sector.
He advised that technical education should be radically and generously funded by the new administration under its new change programme.

”There are persistent complaints that the products of the Nigerian educational system are unable to meet the expectations of corporate Nigeria. Industries and commercial institutions have vacancies that educated Nigerians are not equipped to occupy especially in the areas of technical/engineering and technologies thereby consistently depending on foreign firms for such services”, the tech company chief says.
Application of irrelevant curriculum and analogue teaching methods are some of the reasons for the under-achievement in the educational sector, he says adding that education outcomes fail to match the national expectations especially in manufacturing.
”There is an urgent national need to redefine and reposition technical and engineering education in order to transform this nation from consumption to production”, he adds.
