FEC APPROVES SIX-LEVELS NVQF FOR NIGERIA.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) had, at its meeting of Wednesday
April 10, 2013, approved a Six-Level National Vocational Qualification
Framework for the country.
In her briefing at the end of the
meeting, the Honourable Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed
Rufa'i explained that the framework as approved by the Federal Executive
Council would recognize and certify skills and vocations outside the
school system and place same in the scheme of service.
“What
this means is that Nigeria, for the first time, recognizes that skills
development can be done within or outside the school system and there
are six areas that are being developed in terms of coming from the
lowest level to the highest level”, the minister explained.
