Nigeria has entered right into a strategic partnership with Singapore to boost Nigeria’s Technical and Vocational Schooling and Coaching, TVET, system.
The partnership, facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Schooling, was formalised by means of the signing of an Treaty with the Institute of Technical Schooling, Schooling Companies, ITEES, Singapore, and is designed to enhance the standard of technical coaching and institutional capability throughout Nigeria.
In an announcement issued on Thursday, the ministry’s Director of Press, Boriowo Folashade, stated the Treaty was signed throughout a ceremony linking officers in Abuja and Singapore. Nigeria was represented by the Nationwide Board for Technical Schooling, whereas Singapore was represented by ITEES.
She defined that the partnership is the result of earlier engagements initiated in the course of the 2025 official go to of the Minister of Schooling, Maruf Tunji Alausa, to Singapore.
Through the journey, the minister held discussions with Singapore’s Schooling Minister, Desmond Lee, and toured technical training campuses within the nation.
Additional consultations had been later held in Abuja with Singapore’s Excessive Commissioner to Nigeria, Lim Sim Seng, in February to finalise the Treaty.
Based on the ministry, the association will see ITEES help Nigeria by means of a specialised Practice-the-Coach programme aimed toward strengthening the instructing and evaluation competencies of instructors in technical establishments nationwide.
The initiative is meant to allow educators ship sensible coaching that meets worldwide requirements.
The Treaty additionally offers for management improvement for principals and heads of departments from Nigerian technical establishments by means of coaching programmes in Singapore.
As well as, Nigeria will undertake the World Excellence Mannequin for Expertise Coaching, GEMSET, a framework designed to benchmark and enhance the efficiency of TVET establishments.
Folashade famous that underneath the GEMSET framework, technical establishments in Nigeria will likely be evaluated utilizing globally recognised requirements throughout seven essential areas of TVET excellence.
The mannequin is anticipated to information institutional reforms, modernise workshops and promote alignment with worldwide finest practices in abilities improvement.
Talking on the significance of the partnership, Alausa stated Singapore’s technical training system has turn into a worldwide benchmark for nations looking for to construct a extremely expert workforce.
He expressed optimism that collaboration with ITEES would fast-track reforms in Nigeria’s technical training sector by strengthening institutional capability and equipping educators with fashionable tutorial and evaluation strategies.
The minister added that the initiative helps the Federal Authorities’s broader effort to reposition technical training as a catalyst for {economic} progress, job creation and industrial growth.
He famous that the partnership additionally aligns with the ministry’s Nationwide Schooling, Expertise and Analysis for Innovation agenda and enhances the imaginative and prescient of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to construct a aggressive, knowledge-driven economic system powered by innovation, abilities and human capital improvement.
The ministry reaffirmed its dedication to leveraging international partnerships to strengthen Nigeria’s TVET system and equip younger Nigerians with abilities required to compete within the worldwide labour market.