School Plant Facility and Maintenance: A Necessity Effective Teaching and Learning in Technical Vocational Education and Training

Abstract

Since Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is all about skill acquisition in order toprepare learners to fit into the world of work and become self- reliant, the curriculum for such training has toinvolve the use of adequate provision of necessary fa c il ities c all ed s chool plant in order to ac hieveeffective teaching and learning. The purpose of this paper is to affirm the need for adequate facilities in aTechnical and Vocational Institution, and the necessity to have a good maintenance structure in place inorder to achieve the desired objectives and enhance the life span of the facilities. This paper also looked atissue of challenges facing the maintenance of these facilities in Technical and Vocational Educationalinstitutions in Nigeria. Conclusions were made looking at suggestions in order to achieve adequacy in theprovisions of facilities such as machines, workshops, equipment and tools in Technical and Vocational schoolswhich can effectively enhance teaching and learning and by extension provide economic growth in anynation.