The Industrial Training Fund (ITF) has three skill centers, namely:

Centre for Excellence Jos,
Industrial Skills Training Centre, Lagos and
Instructor Training Centre, Kano.

Centre for Excellence, Jos
The Centre for Excellence was established by the management of the Industrial Training Fund in 1992 to provide up-to-date training and development for staff and non-staff of the Fund to meet the ever-changing demands of group and individual work place and desk functions.

In it's ten years of experience, the Centre has trained over three thousand (3,000) members of staff in various fields of endeavour.

The Centre has a new mandate to reach external clientele in the field of work. As an apex training institution, they design and deliver tailor-made programmes on request to meet clients' identified training assesment.

The Centre is presently comprised of the following units:

Consultancy Services
Curriculum Development
Symptom Based -Study
Staff Development and
Vocational Skills Training

The Centre has a cream of well-seasoned professional staff and other external facilitators drawn from both the private and publicsectors. The professional staff come from various backgrounds of engineering, social sciences, law, textile and other fields of endeavour.

The Centre as a unit of the ITF has successfully participated in ITF/FEAP, ITF/Universities and ITF/NAPEP joint ventures in the past.

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Industrial Skills Training Centre, Lagos
The idea to establish the Industrial Skills Training Centres across the Nation was conceived in 1978. Following years of periodic appraisal of the efforts of various formal and non-formal Vocational Institutions in the country, the Industrial Training Fund in a bid to introduce into the National economy, an effective and systematic Vocational Training System commissioned a study of in-plant and Apprentice training in Nigeria.

As a result of findings from this study and in a bid to introduce a modern and systematic vocational training system which is broad-based in nature, the Fund in 1981 took a policy decision to go into direct training of craftsmen and technicians by establishing industry-oriented vocational training institutions which we now call Industrial Skills Training Centre` (ISTC). The then VTC, Ikeja was the first of the Fund’s non-formal industry-oriented Vocational Training Centre. The programme was of three-year duration and commenced regular classes on the 3rd of May 1983, with 45 trainees in three occupational Areas of 15 trainees each. The three occupational area were:

Auto/Agricultural Machinery Maintenance & Repair
Electrical Installation Works and Maintenancer
Electrical Installation Works and Maintenance

Objectives
The Industrial Training Fund as a Human Resource Development Organisation has its core mandate to be that of training to improve the performance of the industrial work force in the economy by training for skills acquisition and improvement of work processes. The Centre’s objectives are therefore to:

Train and develop high level skilled manpower in the occupational areas that exists in the Centre.
Liaise with the industries to upgrade the skills of their work force for improved productivity.
Undertake studies to establish the skill requirements of industries and develop job specifications for purposes of skills training.
Empower the youth through skills acquisition programme aimed at job creation and enterpreneurship development.
Design and implement booster courses based on industry’s perceived needs.
Certify and issue trainees with ITF competency certificate at the successful completion of the programme.

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Instructor Training Centre, Kano

INTRODUCTION
The Instructor Training Centre, ITC, Kano was established by the Industrial Training Fund in 1983 as a strategy of achieving the mandate of the fund in the area of Instructors/Skills development.
It is located in Darayi Quarters, close to Bayero University Old Campus, Challawa Road, Kano, Nigeria.

FACULTY
The Centre has a faculty of specialists in the following fields:
Mechanical Engineering
Auto motive Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronic Engineering
Agric Mechanization
Metal Fabrication
Pedagogy
Management

COURSES AVAILABLE AT THE CENTRE
To date the centre has developed, pilot tested, and run a number of times, thirty-five different courses in different skills areas with over 5,000 Nigerians benefiting.
The programmes available at the centre are mainly in three categories, viz;-

Instructional Skills Courses
Supervisory Skills Courses
Vocational Skills Courses

INSTRUCTIONAL SKILLS COURSES
Courses and workshops under this heading include:-
Instructional Skill Development Course
Supervisory and Instructional Skills Course
Training coordinators workshop
On-the-job training techniques workshop

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