EXPLORING THE POTENTIALS OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRAINING (TVET) TOWARDS ENTRENCHING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE FACE OF INSURGENCY AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The concept of sustainable development has become a global medium for expressing the need to depart from hitherto dominant models of development that apparently fail to balance the needs of the people and the planet in the pursuit of peace and prosperity. In other words, the well-being of any nation depends largely on its sustainable economic development. On the other hand, national security is the security and defense of a sovereign state including its citizens, economy and institutions which is regarded as a duty of the government. National security was originally conceived as the protection against military attack which was widely understood to also include non-military dimensions such as the security from terrorism, minimization of crime, economic security, energy security, environmental security, food security and cyber security. Similarly, national security risks include and in addition to the actions of other nation states, action by violent non-state actors, by narcotic cartels, organized crime by multinational corporations and also the effects of natural disasters. Meanwhile, governments rely on a range of measures including political, economic and military interventions as well as diplomacy to safe guard the security of a nation state. On the other hand, technical education is a planned programme of course, learning and life skills that enables the achievement of high academic standards, learning experience that begins with exploration of career option, supports basic academic and life skills and enables the achievement of high academic standards, leadership preparation for industry and continuing education. This paper thus dwelt on exploring the potentials of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) in entrenching sustainable development and national security in the face of insurgency and economic hardship currently be deviling different parts of the country Nigeria. Using the survey research design with one hundred (100) respondents, the study revealed that owing to the dynamism in the nature of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET), they are continuously subjected to the forces that drive positive sustainable development in not only educational institutions and industries but also in the society at large.