NITAD Calls On Federal Government To Partner With Relevant Professional Bodies

THE Nigeria Institute of Training and Development, NITAD has called on the Federal Government to take advantage of the relevant bodies and stakeholders in policy formulation and implementation towards making its initiatives, particularly the skills acquisition programme introduced in the school curriculum to be productive.

The President of the institute, Dr. Kayode Oluwagbuyi stated this during the 2016 Fellows Gathering and investiture of new fellows which was held in Lagos on Friday stating that the inability of the federal government to partner with all the stakeholders would minimize productivity on its initiatives.

“If you want to train students to imbibe some skills in them, have you trained the trainers? That is what we call training the trainers. Those who would train these students need to be properly trained and guided, and that is where an institute like ours comes in.

“The inability of the programme to make significant impact might not be unconnected with the fact that relevant stakeholders were not involved. For example, the institute has members who are curriculum developers, facilitators and those who are specialists in presentation.

“It is important that we put round peg in a round whole to achieve the desired result. Also, there should be a database of the skills available and what is required so as to avoid teaching the wrong skills”, he said.

The event which was themed ‘The Role of Fellows in a Professional institute” had Mr. Sunday Adeyemi, Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria as a guest speaker with a total of 12 new members inducted  as Fellows of the institute.