The Ogun State Technical and Vocational Education Board (OGSTVEB) has called on the private sector to partner it in its efforts on rehabilitating technical colleges in the State to meet international standard.
The Board Chairman, Mrs. Doyin Ogunbiyi made the call in Abeokuta during a media chat, saying that the call became imperative as government alone could not shoulder the responsibility of rehabilitating the colleges that were in bad shape following several years of neglect.
She said the resolve of the State Government to turn around the fortunes of the colleges made it to establish the Board, assuring that necessary steps would be taken to rehabilitate and rebrand to make them attractive and meet the yearnings and aspirations of their founding fathers.
The Board Chairman who had just returned from a study tour of Singapore and Malaysia indicated that the experience garnered during the trip would be explored to reposition the colleges and expressed optimism that products of the colleges would become employers of labour that would help to empower youths, eradicate poverty and criminal tendencies.
She pointed out that as part of measures to revamp the colleges, the Board would soon organise a stakeholder’s forum for cross fertilization of ideas.
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