Education, particularly technical and vocational, is the key for sustainable development and economic prosperity with the growing technological innovation, consequential restructuring in industry, economy occupational patterns and job qualification , there must, of necessity, be a re-organization in technical and vocational education in terms of new programmes, retraining programmes, curriculum designs, training methodologies , learning materials, teacher preparation management and administration.
There has always been a nexus between industrial and economic development on the one hand and world of work on the other. Central of both of their countries to be education and training . Though all these sectors have been witnessing mutually corresponding changes all also in the fast, what we are currently experiencing a revolutionary charge brought about by a growing number of unprecedented technological invention and innovations. What is happening today is of a different natures just as mechanization replaced “muscle power” as a productive force the new technologies are replacing machine power by “ brain power” and ‘mind skill’ as essential programmable control devices what is more, the new technologies have broken down the old industrial economy charge has become the pass word in all walks of life and calls of profession
The new emerging technologies are making of possible for us to have the good and services produced and delivered through automated machines and manufacturing processes . Diversity has become as cheap as uniformity in all industrial activities. As a result, the product range is divested. Production customized national market and segmented. Delivery is improved. In other words advanced technology is reversing the earlier to ends of mass manufacturing assembly line production, large inventories, mass distribution and dominance of sellers market (Osuala 1995)
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