Human capacity development: ITF boss harps on collaboration among government agencies

THE director-general of the industrial Training Fund (ITF), Joseph Ari on Monday called for collaboration among government agencies to develop human capacity.

Ari, who said this while presenting a paper at the national War College, said the synergy was necessary to tackle rising level of unemployment in nigeria.

Ari presented a paper titled, “Technical Education and national development in nigeria: Leveraging Human Capital development for Technological Resilience”.

He also said there was the need for harmonisation of certificates to remove the dichotomy between general education and technical and vocational education.

Ari said there was also the need to strengthen collaboration between “technical institutions and industries to meet up with labour market demand.”

“Government needs to establish Teachers industrial Work Experience Scheme (TIWES) as well as adopt state-of-the-art measures to support human capacity development.

“This can be done through engagement of human expertise empowered by research.”

“Furthermore, there should be explicit operational policies that drive human resource development, and provides more funding for tools, equipment and facilities.

“Rather than collaboration, turf protection and tendency to indulge in blame game have taken hold in most institutions that have bearing on the capacity building of nigerians.”

According to him, i say this taking into cognisance of recent declarations by persons that ordinarily should be familiar with manpower development in nigeria but chose to conveniently display ignorance. nan