ABSTRACT
Vocational and technical education (VTE) as a veritable tool in developing the youth for gainful employment and self-reliance. This research work sees VTE as a practically oriented education, which provides variety of opportunities for the youth to develop their potentials. This development will at the end leads to the much needed technological growth in all facets of the nation’s economy. However, it is the stand of this work that VTE has so far, not been adequately utilized for this purpose. The reason for this according to this paper, centers on the fact that government has not done well enough to popularized VTE among the youths by way of guidance and counseling in area of gainful employment and self-reliance in VTE, strategies for promoting sustainable vocational and technical education for gainful employment were highlighted and recommendation made.
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE (INTRODUCTION)
Background to the study
Statement of problem
Purpose of the study
Significance of the study
Research question
Scope of the study
Limitations of the study
Definition of terms
CHAPTER TWO (REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE)
The nature of Vocational and Technical Education
The importance of Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria
Concept of unemployment
Causes of unemployment in Nigeria
Consequences/effects of youth unemployment
Government response to youth unemployment
Vocational and Technical Education as the missing link
Areas of gainful employment and self-reliance opportunities in Vocational and Technical Education
Agricultural education
Business education
Computer education
Home economics
Art education
Revitalizing Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria
Problems facing Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria
Strategies for promoting sustainable Vocational and Technical Education for gainful employment and self-reliance
Promoting incentives to VTE students
Community education
Provision of adequate occupation guidance and counseling tracing and retraining of VTE instructors and teachers
Having a share in their projects
Enlarging employment opportunities
Provision of micro credit scheme for VTE students and graduates
The need for entrepreneurship and information communication technology education in Vocational and Technical Education
CHAPTER THREE (RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND PROCEDURE OF THE STUDY)
Research design
Population of the study
Sample of the study
Sampling techniques adopted
Instrumentation
Validation of instrument
Method of data collection
Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
(PRESENTATION OF DATA DISCUSSION OF RESULT)
Sex distribution of respondents
Level of education
CHAPTER FIVE
(SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS)
REFERENCE
QUESTIONNAIRE
CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Vocational and technical education has been existing in Nigeria before the arrival of Western Education, mostly in the form of apprenticeship programmes. However, formally organized vocational and technical schools were not in existence till after arrival of western education, on the arrival and co-existing of western education with the pre-colonial form of vocational and technical education took off in government organizations such as Nigeria Railway co-operation, public works department, the marine, post and telegraph etc. later on few vocational schools were established by both government and voluntary agencies (Fafunwa 1991).
The design of the Nigeria educational system is flawed, the neglect of technical education is an obstacle to national development and not everyone needs a university education. In Nigeria, technical degrees are regarded as inferior to regular academic degrees, while in advanced nations the reverse is the case. Individuals who posse’s practical skills with years of field experience are highly regarded in fact, the worth of everyone depends on the person’s skills and knowledge and not on the stack of academic degrees one has. Nigeria must learn to bleed theory and practicals in her education because theory alone cannot serve any useful purpose (National Policy on Education 1998).
Nigeria in the most populated country in Africa and the eight in the world with a population of over 140 million people (National population commission 2006). Nigeria is the eight biggest oil producing country in the world, but it has the largest population of poor and non-employed people in Sub-Sahara Africa and is ranked 158th on the human development index there is general high income greatly which has perpetuated the concentration of wealth of the nation in the hard of a few individuals (Action Aid Nigeria 2009).
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