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The future of Nigeria as a nation depends on her youths who are currently undergoing training in schools. They need all forms of assistance to increase and sustain their interest in prevocational education towards fostering enrolment into technical colleges. Despite the vital role Technical, vocational education and training programmes are observed to be playing all over the world in addressing youth unemployment, poverty and skill development, they still remain greatly detested by Nigerian parents and students as seen in the low enrolment into technical colleges. This may be as a result of the poor societal perception and attitude of the programmes as education for the low achievers, never-to-do-wells and those who cannot cope with the sciences and social sciences. This paper therefore, examined the causes of students’ low enrolment in technical colleges and suggested how sustenance of students’ interest in prevocational education in junior secondary schools can help to curtail this trend. It is recommended among others that: the government should re-address the issue of funding and providing enabling facilities to ease learning-by-doing in prevocational education towards fostering enrolment in technical colleges.
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To Cite this Article: Oviawe, J. I. (2015). Sustaining Students’ Interest in Prevocational Education: A Strategy for Fostering Enrolment into Technical Colleges in Nigeria. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 4(3), 1–12.
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