The federal government approved vocational enterprise institutions in Nigeria to be an alternative route to universities and polytechnics in the Country. Students who could not reach the admission requirement for universities and polytechnics or who don’t have the resources to attend any of the universities can attend any of the vocational institutes in Nigeria, there is also room for adults to attend as it is a place to learn specific skills.
NBTE is the body responsible for establishing technical institutions in the country, institutions like monotechnics, vocational enterprise institutions, college of health science, and the rest. This content will provide a list of vocational institutions in Abia State, a brief history of Abia state, what you need to know about Vocational enterprise institutions, what you need to know about NBSE, and a lot more.
What You Need to Know About Vocational Enterprise Institutions
The federal government decided to established vocational enterprise institutions in Nigeria as an alternative route to universities and polytechnics in the country and also NBTE (National Board for Technical Institution) is the body responsible for approving and accrediting such institution as that is one of the major purposes of creating NBTE (National Board for Technical Education).
These institutions are more like monotechnic where certain skills are learned but are different from monotechnics as it another form of higher institution in Nigeria. In these institutions, the students are taught specifics skills like plumbing, welding, automotive repairs, and a lot more, and currently, there are over 70 vocational enterprise institutions in the country, some of the benefits of such institutions include
- It helps reduces the illiteracy level in the country
- It helps students and school leaver who could not reach the admission requirement or don’t have the facilities to attend the various universities and polytechnics in the country
- It gives the candidates’ specifics skills and knowledge
- It somehow reduces the unemployment level in the country
- The admission requirement in these institutions is also very low as most of them just require O’ level results which may be WAEC (West African Examination Council) or NECO (National Examination Council) with at least five credits and also JAMB (Joint Admission and Matriculation Board) is not needed.
All these benefits are among the few benefits of vocational institutions in Nigeria, so these institutions helped Nigerians in a lot of ways that are too numerous to mention, so it, not a bad choice to attend any of these universities.
What You Need to Know About NBTE (National Board for Technical Education)
NBTE is an acronym that stands for National Board for Technical Education, its headquarters is located in Kaduna State, Nigeria, and in 1977 by the federal government of Nigeria. Its role is to supervise technical institutions in the country.
The board is also the body responsible for establishing the various technical institutions in Nigeria, institutions like vocational enterprise institutions and also monotechnics, to be a world-class regulatory body for the promotion of technical education is the vision of NBTE (national Board for Technical Education).
About Abia State
Abia State was founded on the 27th of August 1991 and was created from Imo state. It is bordered by Imo state and Anambra state to the west, Enugu, and Ebonyi to the north, Rivers to the southwest and south, Akwa Ibom to the southeast and east. The capital of the state is Umuahia and also the state has 17 local government areas.
Currently, the state has seven universities including one state university, and federal university, and also three private universities. The state also has a lot of study centers including polytechnics, secondary schools, and a lot more with a lot of security and the major tribe in the state Igbo.
List of Vocational Enterprise Institutes in Abia State
Abia state has a lot of study centers including universities and polytechnics and since the introduction of vocational enterprise institutes, NBTE has approved a lot of them in various states in the country, but below I will be giving the list of vocational enterprise institutes in Abia State.
The institutions in Abia state are kind of much but currently, no vocational Enterprise Institutes have been approved by NBTE in Abia state.