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Studying Industrial Technical Education in Nigeria: Job Opportunities & Challenges of the Course
Nov 4, 2025
Thinking of studying Industrial Technical Education in Nigeria? This video gives you real insights into the course — from what you’ll study, to the challenges, and career opportunities after graduation.
I interviewed students of Industrial Technical Education to share their honest experiences, advice, and what you should know before choosing this course in a Nigerian university.
📌 In this video, you’ll discover:
What Industrial Technical Education is all about
The subjects and skills you’ll gain during the program
Common challenges students face and how they overcome them
Career paths in teaching, industry, and technical fields
Real advice from students already in the course
If you’re preparing for JAMB, admission, or course selection, this guide will help you understand whether Industrial Technical Education is right for you.
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department.
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My name is N Victor Chukunu.
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Okay.
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Um I'm a student of the University of
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Nigeria
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and precisely
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um Department of Industrial Tech
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Education.
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Okay.
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Faculty of Vocational Technical
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Education.
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Okay.
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Yeah. So,
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so Department of Industrial Technical
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Education. So, what is the course all
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about? Um it's it's just is a is a is a
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technical course understand because
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everything that we doing here is field
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based understand um we we did we studied
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the technical part of um almost um all
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the engineering courses like mechanical
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um civil but here we call it building
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construction technology not civil
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engineering. So we have elect um
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electrical electronics engineering we
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have woodwork so we we have many many um
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specialties understand technical
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specialties understand so um we we are
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technology students so um at the end of
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our study here we will be um finishing
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as a as a technologist.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. So yeah.
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So let me ask how many years is this
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course?
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Is is a 4 years course precisely.
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Okay. So uh during the four years is
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there any points where you guys go for
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it like practical experience?
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Yeah. Yeah. I think um um in in our
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level after first year second year level
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um after our first year we be going for
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um it. Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah. Like um one year it Yeah.
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Okay. You mean you mean one one whole
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academic session?
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. In like places like places like
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what? Or maybe it depends on the area
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that you specialize in. If for example
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now um I want to specialize in building
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so I be going to maybe construction
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sites or construction companies as the
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case may be understand. for automo maybe
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going to some companies that are into
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auto maintenance and you know so
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electrical also you know woodwork
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carpentry and the furniture aspect they
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also meet maybe a company that's that is
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into furniture or something to to
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enhance their the knowledge more
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oh that is interesting that is
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interesting so for one whole academic
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session you guys go for this particular
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posting we go for for it that's why
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during in our third level I think during
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first they they they tend to like cover
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more courses
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okay
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that that will like some second semester
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courses um so that when we are done
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going for that so that it won't affect
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us in in our finance because most of our
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second semester
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level courses we do most of most of it
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in year one do everything everything
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will be compiling in in our first
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semester level so so that they can give
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us that space
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okay
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you know to to go for our IT and
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that yeah So we just talk about you know
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them cramping the whole course. So let's
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look at how the challenging part of this
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call like how challenging it is as a
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student of industrial tech technical
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education. Um it's it's it's kind of
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it's challenging actually to understand
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because I think most of us understand
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most of us um the the pre knowledge that
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that that we should have be before
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coming here
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most of you understand for for example I
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was telling about um one of the doing
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here technical drawing understanding you
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know uh to to effectively do um course
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on on technical drawing you you have you
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must have a a pre-nowledge
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about what tank is all about how to draw
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love. So most of us don't have have have
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that pre-nowledge.
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Okay.
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Understand? So and thereby affecting
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um our uh affecting our our um
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productivity here. Understand? Because
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uh because these lecturers most of them
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they they expect that that you coming to
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me that you should have knowledge about
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but even though that most of them know
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that some of us probably might have not
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you know done it understand uh but they
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still believe that that you should have
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a knowledge maybe uh knowing that you
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are coming for the course you you you
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have to go you know try to get some
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financial on what is about before. I
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understand. So, so the the challenge
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there is that doing classes, lectures,
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most students to you know to
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trying to uh not understanding what they
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teaching all of that and all of that
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understand. So they they they need an
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extra
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extra study or extra work uh tutorial to
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to able to grab or or grasp the
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information. Understand? So that that's
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just it. Okay. So apart from technical
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drawing are there any other subject
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maybe does it involve mathematics,
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chemistry
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like um normally like you know you want
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now?
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Okay. First question you want we did um
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u mass one 122 and mass 11 one
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understand one 122 is is calculus uh 11
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one is normal elementary mass
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understand. So most of us here
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understand like okay now I was I was
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talking with a a second year student she
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she was telling me that she she just
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have passion about building she she just
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like building
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understand anything engineering civil
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engineering building but the the the
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challenge is that she she did art course
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okay in secondary
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before entering so is not affecting
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affecting her seriously especially in in
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the area of this technical drawing I
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understand so she she's trying to force
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force herself to you know you know get
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acquainted with what is going on and all
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of that and again calculation is a very
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very big challenge
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okay
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to her understand not just her even like
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in in my in my um in my level now most
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of our students most of our classmates
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most don't have that foundation very
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solid foundation in mathematics I know
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if you if you must do engineering course
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you you must have a very solid
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foundation in math because most of our
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um courses here is is uh calculation
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based
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okay
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for for example now there's a course
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that we did in Facebook master called
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elect
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understand so even though is is a normal
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elementary is is physics is based purely
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physics
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understand so even though most of the
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topics there is is is elementary physics
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that we did in secondary school general
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of that but because of that that um um
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lack of that calculation
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h yes so It's it it tends to impede some
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some some person's um uh ability to
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understand
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to to understand and grasp with what
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understand. So
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um so that that just it calculation and
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that drawing I think that's the two
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basic aspects.
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So we do quickly house what are the
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subjects required to study this course I
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mean O levels and maybe your jams or
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your combination.
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Okay. uh you know like I said before I I
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get in this department understand I
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apply for civil engineering and so
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probably my my didn't get to the
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required this thing so they have to
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shift me here so um but basically
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most of the courses that you you you
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need to you know credit in your own
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level before getting admission is um
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your normal
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chemistry, maths, physics, English
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understand because this the department
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even though is not even general but most
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of the courses is a technical the
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department understand. M almost most of
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all the courses going going on here is
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still um engineering based course
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understand uh based on like u mass
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because the courses that that you will
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do if maybe you you have got engineering
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is is the same course that doing here
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understand mass physics understand the
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the only thing is that maybe there are
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some engineing courses that we might not
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be doing here but we still have a way of
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there's way we call our own courses here
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Understand? It 104 for for example uh we
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we have it
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12 to4
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understand we we have a one to4 it's is
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a is a woodwork is a building
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construction woodwork course
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okay
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understand so we we we have other other
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course code here understand that that is
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still link
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to um engineering uh courses understand
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so um that that was so basically h if if
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you're going for an engineering course.
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understand you you you have to be bear
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in mind is strictly um the courses that
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that you you you need to create in your
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work
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that enable you is maths physics
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chemistry
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chemistry English even even though here
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we don't do more much of chemistry
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okay
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it's just purely physics and maths
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understand so where you have this these
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courses at back of your mind so any
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course that they give to you and one
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thing about UN is
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If if you have for example going for
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understand and they eventually gives you
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another course bear in your mind that
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the course that they g to you even
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though it's not pure um civil engineer
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but it is still related the courses that
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that you'll be doing
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like don't is still mass physics or
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because you you cannot apply for civil
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engineering and they will push you to a
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department where you be doing biology.
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Yes.
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And and and the chemistry. So it's still
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purely um physics and mass and math. So
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so just um u um make sure that that that
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you you you have to plan yourself
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clearly in mind that what you are you
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are going to coming to do is ces is
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purely based on based on physics and
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math related.
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Yes.
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Okay. Okay. uh you know you talked about
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how they cramp a lot of courses you know
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based on the based on they're trying to
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meet up you know because you go for your
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posting your it in third year so as a
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student how do you navigate like what
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are the strategies you use you know to
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make sure you get good grades in
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academics
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my dear is I won't I won't talk much
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about it is just study study extensive
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not just studying but extensive
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extensive study understand like You know
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I I experience here that most of most of
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our lecturers have don't they don't end
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up you know you know like
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don't really go that
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like in details you know teaching us
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what what the course is like navigating
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the course properly understand so they
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tell that their lecturer so the work is
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to lecture so you you don't have to go
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and dig more deep research
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comprehensive and and be able to come up
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with something that that will aid you in
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exam and all that.
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All right. So lastly, one word of advice
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for anyone that is aspiring to study
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this course.
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Um
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this course is is is a good course
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actually understand when I was when when
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I was admitted in I was like in
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industrial technical education. What
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what is industrial education? So I'm I'm
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coming to do educational course or
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something. So I' I've wanted to study
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civil engineering and that was what kept
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me for many years I understand but
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probably because maybe those days I I
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didn't have good counelor because I even
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have a a good counelor there are some
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course because it's not just to study a
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course is to study a course that is very
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lucrative
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is a very good course but if is not for
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an an automo technologist finishes they
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they even have more grounded critical
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knowledge about me. Most most of um
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medical engineering student they they
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used to come to our lab to conduct our
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used to conduct some practical this
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for them
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for them on the side because I don't
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know maybe they don't have enough tools
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in their department or something. So the
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the the course is very nice. So if
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anyone there's opportunity to gain
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addition in this department brace it or
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all you just need do is to you know take
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your your area of specialty understand
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um focus on it do justice to it and you
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see yourself and one of the about this
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is that is practical basor theory theory
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theory everything that that you know you
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seen it practical we we have
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laboratories that they do take us you
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see practical knowledge like partical
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knowledge about most of the things
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understand
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before I I came here I didn't know much
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about even even though I'm into building
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I I didn't know much about maybe because
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you do virtual virtual audio then from
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specific
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specializing
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so I don't know much about automo all
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the shaft all these parts in in in
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in vehicles understand car crash shaft
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cam shaft I didn't have much knowledge
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even though I might be hearing the water
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I didn't know the functions
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of it so when I I now get I start see
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knowing see seeing them real and knowing
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their functions
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so I I encourage anybody that that
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is coming in in this department
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industrial technical education don't
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just view it in the point of educational
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course understand it goes beyond
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it's technical
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it's technical you you you you get the
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the the the rudiment the the the
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nitty-gritty of of of the technical part
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of any area that you specializing.
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Understand?
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Yeah. So, thank you. That that's it.
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Thank you very much. I really
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appreciate. Nice to have you.
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All right. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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