PROBLEMS OF PRIVATE VOCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE COMMERCIAL SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Prior to the Nigerian civil war commercial schools existed in all part of Nigeria for the training of youths in secretarial took over the control of education in 1971. most business schools were mereged with secondary grammer schools. Today there is emergent shift in emphasis and orientation towards a more functional approach to secondary education which fulfills the socio economic needs of the nations secondary school are encouraged to introduced the practice of all subject such as typewriting books keeping shorthand, office clerical and secretarial practices accounting and economics.
Osual’s (1989) observes that formal school for business training were started by private individuals 
The comparatively late development of organized business education as compared to public secondary grammer schools in Nigerian can probably be explained by the patter after the British public grammer school wihich the curriculum is entire of the academic type
He further that the rapid economic development which took place in nigeria during the 1950’s especially in the large population centres promoted the establishment of another type of secondary education which was generally designated the secondary commercial school. Private commercial school can defined as the personal or individual or joint trade or commercial institution that up bring children in both nursery primary, secondary or even commercial schools in the state. However the desire for education knowledge and development of ventures was not left for government alone. 

PROBLEMS OF PRIVATE VOCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS