The National Board for Technical Education has called for a compulsory 50 per cent inclusion of skill acquisition in the curriculum for secondary school students.
Bugaje stressed that enhancing technical education and vocational training for students secondary students would effectively identify talents that could be nurtured into profitable enterprises. “By the time they are ready for higher education, three-quarters of them go to the polytechnics and less than one quarter only go to the university because they have already been exposed to the training received under the dual system.