FG Approves VEIs, IEIs As Alternate Route To Higher Education
To address and close the gap in terms of access to higher education, the federal government have approved the establishment of the private sector-led Vocational Enterprise Institutions (VEIs) and Innovation Enterprise Institutions (IEIs)with the major aim of serving the needs of the industry and self-empowerment in the country.
The private institutions are expected to offer vocational, technical, technology or professional education and training at post basic and tertiary levels to equip secondary school leavers and working adults with vocational skills and knowledge to meet the increasing demand for technical manpower by the varios sectors of the nation’s economy.
This was announced by the minister of education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau at thepresentation of operational licenses to two private Polytechnics and fifteen IEIs and VEIs.
The minister said after satisfying the laid down regulations and demands of the regulatory agency, the institutions “were approved by the federal government to provide alternate route to higher education.
They are private institutions which provide competently based technical and vocational training at post secondary level to meet with
skilled man-power.”
In thesame vein, proprietors of the VEIs and IEIs are calling for a review in the present statusquo in the awards of certificates from National Innovative Diploma (NID) to National Diploma as practiced in conventional Polytechnics, a request that the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) is insisting must remain as practiced.
This was revealed by the executive secretary of the NBTE, Dr M.A Kazaure who revealed that the request will not represent the motive for the establishment of the institutions as “the institutions came on board to address major problems confronting TVET in Nigeria among which is the mismatch between the raining provided and needs of employers.”
”All technical institutions under the purview of NBTE have their set objectives on which basis the curricula were developed.”
“The curricula developed for VEIs and IEIs were industry aligned. This made the different from those developed for Polytechnics and other similar tertiary technical institutions” he said among several others.
The private institutions are expected to offer vocational, technical, technology or professional education and training at post basic and tertiary levels to equip secondary school leavers and working adults with vocational skills and knowledge to meet the increasing demand for technical manpower by the varios sectors of the nation’s economy.
This was announced by the minister of education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau at thepresentation of operational licenses to two private Polytechnics and fifteen IEIs and VEIs.
The minister said after satisfying the laid down regulations and demands of the regulatory agency, the institutions “were approved by the federal government to provide alternate route to higher education.
They are private institutions which provide competently based technical and vocational training at post secondary level to meet with
skilled man-power.”
In thesame vein, proprietors of the VEIs and IEIs are calling for a review in the present statusquo in the awards of certificates from National Innovative Diploma (NID) to National Diploma as practiced in conventional Polytechnics, a request that the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) is insisting must remain as practiced.
This was revealed by the executive secretary of the NBTE, Dr M.A Kazaure who revealed that the request will not represent the motive for the establishment of the institutions as “the institutions came on board to address major problems confronting TVET in Nigeria among which is the mismatch between the raining provided and needs of employers.”
”All technical institutions under the purview of NBTE have their set objectives on which basis the curricula were developed.”
“The curricula developed for VEIs and IEIs were industry aligned. This made the different from those developed for Polytechnics and other similar tertiary technical institutions” he said among several others.
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