Factors Affecting Polytechnic Students’ Perception of Building-Based Vocational Skills
Peter Oluwatoyin Adewale,
Olasunmbo Omobolanle Adhuze
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2017
Pages:
29-35
Received:
20 February 2017
Accepted:
10 March 2017
Published:
10 October 2017
Abstract: An attempt to reposition the Nigerian economy has led to the introduction of entrepreneurship education in all the country’s tertiary institutions with a view to redirecting the youths to technical and entrepreneurial skills for self-employment. Recent studies, however, show low enrolment of students in building related skills at the vocational centres of these institutions despite the important role the sector plays in the socio economic development of the country. While several efforts have been made to explain the reasons for this sombre scenario, empirical-based evidence on the influence of socio-economic background on the attitudes of students towards the acquisition of these skills is lacking. The aim of this study, which was based on Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour, is to explore the influence of gender and family’s occupational background on the attitudes of polytechnic students towards building-based vocational skills. Data were sourced through structured questionnaire administered on 358 randomly selected students from the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti. Chi-square statistics were used to test the hypotheses. Results show that majority of the respondents have negative views about building related skills, which are found to be greatly influenced by the family’s occupational background and gender differences. In order for the nation to achieve its economic and social goals, intensive campaign strategies are required to disabuse the minds of the populace against these perceptions. It concludes by highlighting some of these strategies.
Abstract: An attempt to reposition the Nigerian economy has led to the introduction of entrepreneurship education in all the country’s tertiary institutions with a view to redirecting the youths to technical and entrepreneurial skills for self-employment. Recent studies, however, show low enrolment of students in building related skills at the vocational cen...
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A Study on Career Choice Related to Decision Making by Student
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2017
Pages:
36-39
Received:
29 August 2017
Accepted:
20 September 2017
Published:
15 November 2017
Abstract: In era of cut throat competition it’ s a very crucial and change able to opt subjects or career as future, for those who are hail from rural areas and unable to access of any kind of E-medium of communication as well as not getting the right resource person to whom they take the suggestions or counseling that which specialization as subject they will study at school level and has futures cope also, on the contrary the urban student they have a very clear vision about the career choice Decision, because people from cities they are Electronic savvy in nature and within second get each and every information on the single screen, the parents from rural areas they don’t afford Electronic Gazette that's why they fail to help in opting the correct stream so, this paper is basically to find out solution for the rural children and youngster so that they make their future bright by deciding the most aspiring and booming field as a career choice or which stream opt after high school and which course to pursue at undergraduate college.
Abstract: In era of cut throat competition it’ s a very crucial and change able to opt subjects or career as future, for those who are hail from rural areas and unable to access of any kind of E-medium of communication as well as not getting the right resource person to whom they take the suggestions or counseling that which specialization as subject they wi...
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