Nasarawa State governor, Umaru
Al-Makura, has signed a Memoranda of Understanding with an Institute of
Technical Education in Singapore to enhance technical education in the
state.
Speaking at the ceremony on Thursday at
the Government House, Lafia, Al-Makura said the MoU was a fall out of
his visit to Singapore in 2013.
“The visit of the technology experts
from Singapore to the state is in tune with my administration’s
foresight to provide to the students of the state a model technical
education,” he said.
The governor said that education
curriculum in the state would be adjusted because of the collaboration
to accommodate the acquisitions.
Al-Makura said that the agreement would be relevant to modern technical skills to meet contemporary situations.
He further explained that the new
approach would benefit all skills acquisition centres across the three
senatorial zones of the state.
“The aim is in line with this
administration’s policy of empowering youths and creating wealth through
skills acquisition,” said the governor.
Al-Makura said the technology would also
de-emphasise certificates for white collar jobs and encourage skill
acquisition for self reliance.
He said that providing vocational,
technical skills and special education for the physically challenged
were part of the broad vision of his administration toward ensuring that
no segment of the society was segregated against accessing quality
education.
According to him, the first phase of the
training will commence in three centres, including the relevant
technology skills acquisition centres in Doma and Lafia local government
areas as well as the Government Technical College, Assakio.
The Chief Executive Officer of the
institute, Dr. Benjamin Tan, had earlier explained that the shipment of
the equipment had already commenced, just as experts from the institute
would also be at hand to help in the modification of the curriculum.
Tan pledged the institute’s commitment and faithfulness to the implementation of the terms of the MoU
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