Vocational and Technical Education Journal

The paper discussed apprenticeship training system as a means of bridging the gap between education/training institutions and the labour market as well as breaks the dichotomy between knowledge and skills acquired in school and those required in the workplace. The paper considered the concept and rationale for apprenticeship training, the challenges facing apprenticeship training in Nigeria, and approaches that could be adopted to promote apprenticeship training in Nigeria, among others. It was concluded that apprenticeship training in Nigeria has no policy framework guiding its operations, and therefore it is uncoordinated and unregulated. It was recommended among others that policies should be formulated to guide operations of the apprenticeship system and foster closer collaboration between education/training institutions and the industry/workplace in order to anticipate available opportunities in the labour market and prepare students to meet the challenges of such opportunities.

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