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    Instructional Supervisory Strategies and Quality Assurance for Technology Education Teachers in Nigeria
    (International Journal of Scientific Research, 2012) Igwe, C.O.; Ohize, E.J.; Atsumbe, B.N.; Onoh, C.E.C; Ibeneme, O.T.
    The quality of education at any level cannot be divorced from the quality of teachers in the educational system. The paper advocates that attention and priority for instructional supervisory strategies in training and retraining of teachers is essential to make reasonable and sustainable impact in teaching of students. Some of the strategies include; target setting, team training and organizational diagnosis among others. It is recommended that the government should ensure better condition of service for technical teachers in order to enhance their commitment to the job and improved funding for in service training of technical teachers thereby actualizing quality assurance in technical education system.
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    Repositioning Vocational and Technical Education for effective manpower production in Nigeria
    (International Organization of Scientific Research, 2012) Atsumbe, B.N.; Raymond, E.; Igwe, C.O.; Atsumbe, J.A.
    To meet the challenges of technological change that can support economic growth and to guarantee equal access to opportunities and employment, Vocational and Technical Education must be available to a substantially greater proportion of young people and adult alike. In this paper Vocational and Technical Education has been identified as the most reliable veritable vehicle that can be used in preparing skilled manpower for the nation. Major constraints to vocational and technical education such as historical legacy from colonial rule, societal attitudes government lip service to vocational education, lack of adequate teaching man power, problems of management and organization of VTE, relevance of curriculum, poor state of infrastructures and training equipment amongst others. The paper also made a number repositioning strategies for quality manpower production. These includes a general re-orientation of the concept of Vocation; re-organization and management of Vocational education; new capacity building strategy for Vocational teachers, new funding approach, collaboration with employers accreditation and automatic streaming of students among others. Keywords: Repositioning, Vocational and Technical Education, Manpower production