Abstract
Supervision, administration and quality assurance in vocational and technical education are three widely discussed concepts in any specialized skill-focused education. Ineffective or absence of supervision and administration has been discovered by policymakers as an inhibition to the realization of goals of vocational and technical education and its quality assurance. The purpose of this paper is to explore effective supervision and administration as a panacea to quality assurance in vocational and technical education in Nigeria; to examine the relevance of effective supervision and administration to vocational and technical education. The paper highlighted concepts and challenges of vocational and technical education, outcome of ineffective supervision and administration, quality assurance and its impact in vocational and technical education. This paper concluded that since the attainment of rapid technological and socioeconomic development of any developed economy is based primarily on Vocational and Technical Education, the supervision and administration of this type of education therefore, has to be effectively executed. Suggestions were made to this effect. Keywords: Effective, Supervision, Administration, Panacea, Poor, Quality Assurance, Vocational and Technical Education, Nigeria. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-16-18 Publication date: June 30th 2020
Highlights
The Federal Government of Nigeria is conscious of the importance of education for personal and national economic development that is in section 12: 107 (c) of the National Policy on Education (2004)
A critical issue that has frequently confronted Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria is the challenge of effective administration and supervision
If education would be one of the tools to realize the objectives of transformation agenda of the present government in Nigeria, there is a need to improve upon the quality of learning in Vocational and Technical Education through effective supervision of instruction Ekundayo, Oyerinde & Kolawole (2013)
Summary
O. Department of Vocational and Technical Education Faculty of Education, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
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