Overview

CENTRE FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION AND WORKPLACE TRAINING (CCE&WT) IN GENERAL PERSPECTIVE

National Open University of Nigeria Centre for Continuing Education and Workplace Training (CCE & WT) Headquarter is located in Lagos. It is equipped with much recent technology that enables it to connect effectively and efficiently with NOUN Study Centres all over the country.

CLE & WT MISSION STATEMENT
Recognizing basic education and knowledge as the way to cultural, social and economic development, CCE & WT is committed to providing open, distance and technology mediated learning to the vulnerable populace of Nigeria the less privilege literate and semi-literate citizens in various workplace training centres, the migrant fishermen, the nomadic cattle and seep rearers, the rural farmers, the out-of-school youths, etc., who are by the very nature and design of their environment denied access to formal and/or further education, as well as to the educated ones the professionals low and high the artisans, teachers, accountants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, politicians, self-employed business men and women who need further training and retraining, workshops, conference, refresher courses, etc., in their professional areas or new areas.


CLE & WT DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
CCE & WT is unique and distinguished by several key features, prominent among which are:

1. Community-centre as it ensures that the people from the immediate community in which the University or University Study Centre is situated as the ultimate Beneficiaries of its educational activities.

2. It is the only Department of NOUN with a mandate exclusively to extend access to education at all levels for people who otherwise would have been denied university education due to insufficient entry qualification, as it offers certificate and diploma courses that can qualify learners for entry into university degree programmes.

3. Innovative exploring new opportunities for capacity building offered by technological change and research on learning while on the job.

4. Responsive sensitive to priorities and needs as defined by its clientele, offering solutions appropriate to prevailing circumstances and conditions at the various workplace training centres or- institutions in the country.

5. Staff capacity and capabilities as the Centre is staffed with both permanent staff and temporary resource personnel with years of ground breaking work and experience in the field of ODL


CCE & WT WORK PLAN

THE TRAINING CONTEXT

While CCE & WT may be limited with respect to the provision of education to people at the Certificate and Diploma levels, the Centre is extremely helpful in providing training and retraining, long term and short-time courses, refresher courses, seminars, workshops, etc., to institutions and corporate organizations, companies, banks, industries, to all those already employed in the country's various workplaces. For a sane (effective and efficient) workforce in the country, the skill sets necessary to more responsible and responsive workers must be created. This requires at a minimum the development of necessary life skills and work ethics, besides the relevant and necessary professional skills. Hitherto unattained, gained or forgotten, for which CCE & WT with its ODL approaches. can be helpful.

The Centre approaches all the inherent issues with the flexibility necessary to reach all including those already employed, who require training while still in their workplaces.

To this end, CCE &WT has designed workshops, short-time courses, conferences, seminars, etc. covering a wide variety of areas. THE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR CONTEXT

With the UBE in place, Nigeria is beginning to succeed in providing increased opportunities for primary education. This is in line with the global call for "Education for All" for all citizens to have access to basic education. But this success will add up pressures further up the ladder. More and more Nigerians will need education at both primary and secondary levels, and pressures will become enormous both for more trained teachers and for alternative approaches to curriculum delivery methods. Apart from in-service courses and work- shops/conferences for teachers, CCE & WT can be helpful in supporting the development of digital networks connecting communities of teachers, teacher trainers and private-school proprietors' educational delivery.