Issues in Updating Technology Education for Skills Sustainability in Nigeria

Wilson Udo Udofia

Abstract

The triangular productivity factors of production which include land, labor, and capital are inevitable in leading the development of the industrials, agricultural, tertiary health care, increase employment rate, and national income. The growth rate of the national economy depends solely on the provision of sound academic foundation which create the needed awareness. Performance measure in both public and private sector is adjudged based on production rate, the income and wages, and the working conditions prevailing. Sound technology education forms the bed rock for the attainment of sustainable and stable economy in all spheres of livelihood. The role of developing saleable skills becomes pertinent in sustaining the vision of a highly technological society in line with rapidly changing technologies. This paper attempts to review issues in updating the concept of technology education in modern time, the sustainability of the basic skills and potentials, the constraints or weaknesses in meeting the vision of a sound technology education and finally measures to improve the dilapidated structure of the current status of technology education as it is being practiced for sustainability and development. Keywords: Technology education, technology education weaknesses, skills sustainability, updating technology educationCite this Article Wilson Udo Udofia. Issues in updating technology education for skills sustainability in Nigeria. Journal of Offshore Structure and Technology. 2015; 2(2): 19–26p.