By Fabiyi, Sikiru Olalekan Moyosore
The growing concern for the pervasiveness of low quality building trades craftsmen from Technical Colleges in Nigeria, with the consequent un-savouring instances of their unsuitability for immediate employment in the construction industry and the concomitant hindrances to sustainable living, prompted these research efforts. The study was aimed to identify and unravel the causal factors which hopefully will lead to the ultimate reversal of the ugly trend. The worrisome feedbacks from the construction industry and replete literature evidences of the products’ under achievement and lack of expressions for saleable skills had ceaselessly indicted the Technical Colleges, and underscored its achievement for failure in its responsibility to produce graduates to meet the requirements of the industry, without a needless back-up training which most companies were reluctant to undertake. After a careful preliminary assessment of the situation, the researcher resolved to examine the mode of curriculum implementation; and was uncomfortable with the prevalent age-long dogmatic instructional delivery methods employed in Technical Colleges to train the students, which might attribute to the culmination of the inherent half-baked and ill-prepared end products. With appropriate resources, qualified and experienced personnel on ground, investigation would next focus on the style of instructional delivery and curriculum implementation.