No fewer than 29,260 students enrolled for the 2025 nationwide Technical and Vocational Education and Training examination, TVET, into Federal technical colleges.
DAILY POST reports that the Registrar of National Business and Technical Examinations Board, NABTEB, Dr Mohammed Aminu Mohammed disclosed this on Saturday, during the monitoring of the examination at the Federal Technical College, Uromi, Edo State.
Mohammed said the students going into Senior Secondary school, SSS 1, from the Junior Secondary School, JSS 3 enrolled and sat for the examination.
The NABTEB Register represented by Mr Osaigbovo Pius, Director of Research and quality assurance department of the board said the 2025 enrollment of 29,260 was more than the 2024 enrolment of 7,547 students.
He attributed the increase in enrollment to the federal government’s incentives to students to boost Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the country.
He disclosed that the result of the examination would be released in three weeks.
“This initiative is a flagship program of the Federal Ministry of Education designed to equip young Nigerians with practical skills for employment and entrepreneurship.
“Through partnerships with certified training centers across the country, the initiative offers tuition-free training, monthly stipends, and start-up support for selected trades in high-demand sectors.
“We want to thank President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister for education Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa
for this new TVET initiative which has brought life into the technical college as a result of the incentives.
“It has really given a boost to interest and awareness resulting in the large turnout of candidates writing the examination today”, he said.
He opined that the TVET initiative is to equip and empower youths with the relevant skills that are industry- based and geared towards filling the gaps in the industries in the drive for the country to be among the most foremost countries in the 21st century in the world.
He said the incentives of the programme would be bankrolled by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND.
“With this initiative, the Federal Government is phasing out Junior Secondary schools from the technical colleges. It is now going to be a three year programme from the Senior Secondary school, SSS 1 to SSS 3.
“At the end of the training, the students would be given a dual certificate by NABTEB, the usual NTC/NBTC technical school certificates, a skill based on competency which are the drive of the federal government.
“The federal government wants to give an individual a survival skill, a skill that is relevant, a skill that makes them employers of labour and be useful to themselves and the society.
“JSSI to JSS III is being phased out in technical colleges and what we are going to have is TEVT I,II and III which is equivalent to SSSI, SSS2 and SSS3. Now the present JSS3 , if they transit to TVET one there would be no JSSI and in another three years there would be no JSS but only TVET.
“In the TVET, we are going to have three years academic programme and it is going to be 80 percent technical and 20 percent theory”,he added.
In her remarks, Mrs Igwe Amy Kalu, Director (education), Principal of the technical college, commended the conduct of the candidates during the examination.
Kalu urged the candidates to put in their best, noting that by the sitting arrangement and the presence of examination invigilators and supervisors there was no room for malpractices.
29,260 students enroll for 2025 TVET exams into federal technical colleges – NABTEB
