Technical Education can be seen as that aspect of education that involves acquisition of professional skills, special manipulative skills, creative minds and attitude required to practice a profession for the benefit of an individual and the society. It also connotes education with salable and employable skills which can lead to self- reliance, self- employment thus generate per capital income in a society like Nigeria with abundant human resources. However, technical education
development in Nigeria is influenced by missing gap between teaching and research. This paper examined the problems associated with the gap between teaching and research in technical education which include poor funding of research programmes in technical education, non implementation of research findings and recommendations in the teaching of technical education, inadequate training and re-training of technical teachers, poorly equip laboratories, defective
curricula, weak industry partnership, and poor teaching techniques. However the paper recommended that the present curriculum of technical education should incorporate research related issues so as to bridge the existing gap between what is taught in classroom, research work in workshop and after graduation.