REPOSITIONING ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES THROUGH UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP

One of the challenges confronting education is how to ensure that students are provided with opportunities and the capacity to transition into whichever field of vocation they have chosen. One way to address this challenge is through a functional university-industry partnership. University-industry partnership is a bi-directional relationship between university and industries with the sole aim of developing mutual benefits over time. This paper looks at the concept of university-industry partnership and how it could be harnessed to reposition electrical/electronics technology education programme in Nigerian universities. The paper also discusses several modes of university-industry partnership and how lecturers, students, and industry personnel in the field of electrical/electronic technology can benefit from such relationship. The paper concludes and recommends that the Heads of Department in collaboration with university management should come up with a blueprint/framework for university-industry partnership in Electrical/Electronics technology education programme in their various localities.