By Dayo Adesulu

THE Lagos State Technical Vocational Education Board, LASTVEB,  has partnered Nigerite Limited on dry construction solutions to boost the skills of students and instructors in building construction.

Speaking at a three-days workshop organised by LASTVEB/Nigerite in Lagos, the Executive Secretary, LASTVEB, Engr. Gasper Olawumi said that the workshop is part of LASTVEB industrial partnership with  Nigerite, adding that there is no way the technical education can be run without the support of the industry.

According to him, apart from putting together for us structures where we have centre for construction, building technology at the Technical College Ikorodu, Nigerite has gone further to take the instructors out for training, adding that the construction that we are all used to is wet construction but we are educating our instructors in this workshop on dry construction, which is a new method of construction.

He also noted that the workshop was organized for instructors for them to be able to impact the knowledge acquired on the students in the course of teaching them, adding that they selected ten young trainers for the training who will go back to classrooms to disseminate the knowledge to students in accordance with the  partnership with the industry.

On the choice of choosing Nigerite as a partner, he revealed that Nigerite in one of the leaders in building construction, adding that hey are well respected, grounded and they have been into the system, for long.

Engr. Laolu Oguntuyi, the Director of Technical and Vocational Services, Lagos State Technical Vocational Education Board, LASTVEB, term the workshop as “teachers’ industrial work experience schemes”, adding that it is meant for teachers to get themselves abreast with new technology by learning the dry construction of building.

According to him, in dry construction, much water is not needed. It is done in a galvanised form. He also noted that the “innovation will bridge the skill gap of the required skills and acquired skills”. Adding that “in most cases, this skill gap leads to our graduates not being employed because they don’t have the required skills but the acquired skills.