CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (CEM), INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY (IMT) ENUGU. A RESEARCH PROJECT MATERIAL ON CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMICS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
The planning of the establishment of Institute of Management and Technology Enugu, there not in progressive forms till 1967 to a college of technology up to the ordinary diploma level.
An institution of administration which provide short come in-service training courses for civil servants of various grades and a co-operative college offered a certificate course in co-operative studies to co-operative inspector from the ministry of industry, trade and co-operative.
These institutions were separated and separately located. The college of technology was part of the ministry of Education and was controlled and directed by that ministry, similarly, the institute of administration was controlled by the ministry of establishment, while the co-operative college was directly under the ministry of rural development.
All the staff of these institutions were civil servants, they were posted and re-posted from one department to another according to their needs or civil services.
However, after 1970, they arose the need for higher institution of learning to up grade the training in the technological and managerial fields which there were severe need for manpower development. The future graduates in the technology and management and allied field would be more effective by functional training than the institute of administrations.
To the founding father, the main purpose became the maximization of the management efficiency, professional and technical expertise and also the acquisition of the additional tools for these.
The close coupling of the management and technology in the new objectives was the needless to say and not the fruitful. The management and technology of then needs training for the satisfaction and fulfillment of itself, and in the world it applied science entails more problems of both moral and ecological significance. Later, they can no longer afford to be the narrow minded professional concerned with only machine and structure. He must understand the relationship and social setting of his position with his industrial environment. He must work with other people, be acquainted with the basic personnel and labour matters. This was as a result of these idea of an autonomous, IMT was conceived.