Vocational Skills & Entrepreneural Study Center

The major objectives of the centre are to provide trainees (students) an opportunity to acquire functional skills, desired work habit that will enable them to be self-reliant, self-employed and productive member of the community and society. The target trainees are:

(i) all our students who must learn and master one trade before graduation and
(ii) other youths, civil servants and retirees outside the school.
The vision of the center is to develop skills which facilitate professional and technical progress of every individual in his/her professional calling or career. Also, to enhance the job skills of all graduate of our institution as a means to be self-reliant, self-employed and productive members of the society.

Centre for Entrepreneurship Development and Vocational Studies was established in line with the mandate given to the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) that all students of Polytechnics and Monotechnics in Nigeria must offer courses in Entrepreneurship education so that they can possess the ability to start their own business and consequently become employer of labour. This mandate is traceable to the determination of the Federal Government in reducing graduate unemployment in Nigeria.

The Centre was subdivided into four units namely

(i) Enterprise Development

(ii) Academic Programme

(iii) Work Study Scheme and

(iv) Skill Acquisition.

Each of these subdivisions is headed by a Deputy Director. At present, the Enterprise Development, Skill Acquisition and the Academic Programme units are operational and overseeing the activities of the enterprises developed from the various skills and the entrepreneurship courses respectively. However, efforts have reached advanced stage to start the work study scheme. The work study scheme is expected to provide the necessary manpower for other establishment of the institution.

With high unemployment, public sector retrenchment and downsizing in corporations, self-employment and small enterprise promotion are presently high on the agenda of our institution.

The Centre through its Entrepreneurship Education is learning directed towards developing in our students those skills, competencies, understandings, and attributes which will equip them to be innovative, and to identify, create, initiate, and successfully manage business, and work opportunities, including working for themselves. Undertaking Entrepreneurship education in the Polytechnic encourages the development of skills and attributes that employers are looking for, such as teamwork, commitment and flexibility. It will also help to develop in students a realistic knowledge and understanding of business and working life.
To assist students in making occupational choice that they could find rewarding and self-fulfilling, and which will coincide with the manpower needs of the country in its march toward industrial development and technological sufficiency.

Our Objectives

The broad objective of the Centre is to run skill acquisition programmes, student work-study programmes and entrepreneurial programmes. With these in view therefore, the specific objectives of the Centre are:

(i) to provide the platform where students/staff/retirees could acquire functional skills that could guarantee self-reliance.

(ii) to put in place an environment that could enhance the productivity of the

artisan/craftsmen/technicians labour force

(iii) to put in place trade and vocational skills acquisition training programmes.

(iii) to provide room for technical and non-technical skill acquisition for those resident in and around the Polytechnic,

(iv) to equip the students with relevant skills and knowledge needed to make them successful entrepreneurs and thus job creators and employers of labour.

At present CEDVS has been making use of available facilities within the campus to train students in eleven skills/trades identified above.

Our Programmes

Current Programmes and Activities of CEDVS

Currently CEDVS has been operating eleven (11) Skill/Trade Units which are highlighted below:

i. Aquaculture

(iii) Snailery Unit

(iv) Tie & Dye/Batik Unit:

(v) Soap Production Unit:

(vi) Crop Production Unit:

(vii) Simple Electrical Gadget Unit:

(viii) Welding and Fabrication Unit:

(ix) Poultry Farming Unit:

(x) Bakery and Confectionery Unit.

(xi) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Unit.

The unit is currently training students in two ICT areas which are; A+ Technician Training and Website Design and Development. The unit has one hundred and twenty five students currently undergoing training in the two areas mentioned above. The Unit has the projection of setting up full ICT business centre that will be providing ICT solutions to companies and organisations.