Department Of Vocational And Technical Education

Founded: 0000
E-mail address: voctech@abu.edu.ng

Brief History

The Department of Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) has three degree-programmes; Agricultural Education, Business Education and Home Economics Education.

The Home Economics Education programme started with a 3-year degree programme in the Department of Education in the 1973/74 academic session. In the 1976/1977 academic session, a 3-year degree programme in Business Education was started. In the 1977/78 academic session, the two combined programmes (Home Economics Education and Business Education) formed the Department of Vocational and Technical Education. The two programmes lead to the award of B. Ed Home Economics and B. Ed Business Education.

In the 1978/79 academic session, a two-year degree programme was started in the department. This was to meet the demand of the UPE as per the provisions of the National Policy on Education. With the establishment of the department, the future of NCE holders became brighter. Only NCE holders with 10 points and above were admitted for the 2-year degree programme.

In the 1978/79 academic session, post Graduate programmes were launched in both Home Economics Education and Business Education. These are M. Ed Home Economics Education and M. Ed Business Education Programmes. The M. Ed programme in Home Economics has the following options - Home Management, Foods and Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles, Child Development, and Home Economics education. The options for the Business Education programme are Accounting Education, Marketing/Distributive Education and office Education. Furthermore, the Ph. D programme for Business Education took off with the same options as those of the M. Ed Business Education.

In the 1992/93 academic session, an Agricultural Education programme was started. The department currently runs 3 and 4 years’ degree programmes for the 3 programmes.

In addition to the regular degree programmes, the department has a Long Vacation Term (LVT) programme for the three programmes, leading to the award of Bachelor of Science degree (B.Sc. Ed) in Agricultural Education and Home Economics Education, and Bachelor of Education (B. Ed) in Business Education.
The department has affiliated programmes for the B. Ed degree in four Colleges of Education; Kano, Minna, Zaria, Sokoto, and recently Kontagora. College of Education Lafiagi has a long vocation programme for Agricultural Education and Business Education.

In the 2006/2007 academic session, an M. Sc (Ed.) Agricultural Education Programme was started with the following options; Agricultural Economics and Extension Education, Animal Science Education, Crop Production and Horticulture Education, and Soil Science Education.

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Philosophy

The philosophy of the programme is to effectively participate and contribute
to nation Building by providing and supplying the work urgent needed
qualified and competent manpower for promoting and enriching various
agricultural development programmes in education and related fields.
Emphasis is given to the improvement of the standard and quality of trained
teachers, through attempts to assist in developing a creative approach to the
understanding of highly motivated and efficient, trained teachers of
agriculture for all levels of education systems.

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Registration Guidelines

Registration is done on-line, using the Ahmadu Bello University portal. A student pays in the bank, collects a scratch card and registers courses on-line. After the on-line registration, the student prints his registration form and returns to the department. Copies of the form are signed by the registration officer. One copy is filed in the student’s file in the department’s records office, one copy is submitted to the Dean’s office, and another copy to the Academic Office at the Senate building.


DEFERMENT

(a) Deferment of Registration.
A student can defer a minimum of one semester and a maximum of four semesters. The candidate is expected to have registered fully before putting in application for deferment. In essence, admissions cannot be deferred.

(b) Deferment of Course of Studies.
Even though the programmes in the department are four-year programmes, a student is expected to complete his/her studies within a maximum period of six years. This means that deferment of studies can only be made for a minimum of one semester and a maximum of four semesters.

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