**3. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET)**

According to FMoE [7], pre-vocation studies are a new Universal Basic Education (UBE) subject curriculum created from the integration of Agriculture and Home Economics in a bid to reduce subject listing at the UBE level. The objectives of prevocational studies at the UBE level are to enable the pupils/students to:


This component of education is classified under post-basic education and career development, offered after basic education. Pre-vocational education is offered at the basic level, beginning at the middle basic level (Primary 4-6). Thus, the curriculum is structured as follows: pre-vocational studies for Primary 4-6, JSS 1-3, and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Senior Secondary School.

There is uniqueness in the content of the pre-vocational studies curriculum. The introductory paragraphs, objectives, justification and brief description of the curriculum are uniquely described for both pre-vocational studies 4–6 and pre-vocational studies for JSS 1-3 [4, 5]. A definition advocated for TVET by the Federal Republic of Nigeria [6] refers to those aspects of the educational process involving, in addition to general education, the study of technologies and related sciences and the acquisition of practical skills, attitudes, understanding and knowledge relating to occupations in various sectors of economic and social life.
