Value creation: A catalyst to job satisfaction of vocational educators in tertiary institutions in selected states of Nigeria
October 2014
The study assessed the influence of value creation on job satisfaction of vocational educators in tertiary institutions in Edo and Delta States. One research question was raised and one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a survey research design. A sample of 189 (one hundred and eighty nine) vocational educators was used for the study. The instrument was validated by...
Why we cannot afford to lose CTE in schools
September 2014
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a vital part of our nation’s education system. Despite a myriad of positive outcomes related to CTE, such as creativity, problem solving, manual dexterity, and spatial perception, CTE participation, funding, and emphasis have declined in recent years. This paper discusses the history of CTE as well as the current status of CTE in education. Positive...
Assessing the traits of potential entrepreneurs among technical college students
June 2014
Entrepreneurial behaviour is driven by the need for personal achievement leading to a clear productivity for becoming an entrepreneur. One approach to fostering entrepreneurship in science and technical college is to strengthen the entrepreneurial traits in the youths. The objective of the study was to investigate the entrepreneurial traits among entrepreneurs in industries, technical teachers and students in selected...
Technical and vocational skills depletion in Nigeria and the need for policy intervention
December 2013
The study was carried out to assess the impact of erosion of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) on technological capability building in Nigeria by commercial motorcycling transportation mode. The study used primary and secondary data sources. The number of respondents sampled was 500. Structured questionnaires were administered on commercial motorcyclists. This was supplemented with field...
Availability and adequacy of resources for skill acquisition in digital electronics repairs in the National Open Apprenticeship Scheme in Edo State, Nigeria
December 2013
This study was carried out to assess the availability and adequacy of provision of resources for skills acquisition in maintenance and repairs of digital electronics for the National Open Apprenticeship Scheme in Edo State. The study was guided by four purposes, from which four research questions were raised. The descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. The population of the study was 312. A sample...
Information and communication technology: The pivot of teaching and learning of skills in electrical and electronics technology programme in Nigeria
December 2013
The polymorphous nature of teaching and learning has contributed to the quest for skills delivery and acquisition at any place and pace. Teaching and learning of skills in electrical and electronics programme cannot be restricted to the traditional classroom settings, but should adopt favourable and acceptable technological dynamism. The inadequacy in the supply of facilities and qualified manpower perhaps has...
Students’ academic performance in the transition period before choosing areas of specialization in Nigeria Certificate Education (Technical) programme
December 2013
The study examined the level of academic performance in the compulsory and related courses offered by all the students in technical education during the transition period of the first and second years of a three years NCE Technical programme before choosing their area of specialization. The study comprises 237 students: 22 Automobile students; 8 Building students; 21 Electrical/Electronics students, 24 Metalwork...
Strategy performance assessment of Nigeria tertiary institution business education programme on entrepreneurship intervention
November 2013
The study seeks to answer the question “how entrepreneurs are the business education graduates?” by providing a fair judgment on the effectiveness of the business education programme in Nigeria universities at fulfilling its utilitarian objective as an educational programme that prepares the individual to develop and handle private business ventures and function intelligently as entrepreneurs in a business...
State of facilities for teaching electrical installation and maintenance work trade in technical colleges in Bauchi State, Nigeria
November 2013
It is a known fact that a technical teacher cannot teach effectively without functional tools, equipment and machines. The environment in which the teaching/learning takes place must be conducive. This study was carried out to assess the state of facilities available for teaching Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Trade (EIMWT) in Bauchi State Technical Colleges. The design of the study consists of a...
The role of ICT in skilled manpower development through vocational technical education among higher institutions in Cross River State, Nigeria
November 2013
This research focused on the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in skilled manpower development through vocational technical education among higher institutions in Cross River State, Nigeria. One research question and hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The target population for this study was 2,420 respondents comprising 2,210 vocational education trainees and 210 vocational educators. A...
Examining E-learning barriers as perceived by faculty members of Engineering Colleges in the Jordanian Universities
October 2013
Employing computer's technology that includes e-learning system in the field of Engineering is a vital issue which needs to be discussed. Therefore, this study purposed to examine e-learning barriers as perceived by faculty members of engineering in three major universities in Jordan (Yarmouk University, Jordan University of Science and Technology, and Al-Balqaa Applied University) in the second semester of...
The relationship between government policy and management practices at further education and training colleges
October 2013
This paper aims to explain the relationship between FET policy origination and management practices at college level in Gauteng. Empirical evidence shows that there exists a gap between policy and practice. Literature points out that since 1994, South Africa has passed laws that created favorable conditions for policy development. The success or failure of government FET policies can be judged at college...
Increasing low income women’s literacy skills for the workplace and beyond: A review of the literature
September 2013
Literacy is a basic human right, yet so many women are either denied or severely lacking in those skills which afford a productive livelihood and civically engaged life. Women are the main caregivers and more often the main providers as well. Yet with low literacy skills, single parent female headed households are also impoverished. This paper, taking on the form of a review of the literature, suggests that...
Competency based education and training in technical education problems and perspectives
September 2013
The article presents a discussion of the challenges faced by the Technical Entrepreneurial Vocational Education and Training (TEVET) system in Malawi as it attempts to provide quality technical education. The study involved 40 instructors, 8 principals, 3 TEVET center managers, the TEVETA1 head of Training, and the Directorate from the Ministry of Education Science and Technology. The findings show lack of...
Relationship between the utilization of internet based information by secretarial teachers in the Nigerian Colleges of Education and the effectiveness of their lesson delivery
August 2013
This study assessed the relationship between the utilization of internet based information by secretarial teachers in the Nigerian Colleges of Education and the effectiveness of their lesson delivery. 250 secretarial teachers drawn from 58 accredited Nigerian Colleges of Education responded to the questionnaire that was divided into 4 parts. The questionnaire was used to obtain information on the...
Portability of technical skills across occupations: A case for demolition of disciplinary silos?
August 2013
Current general practice among teachers is to isolate themselves and their students from colleagues in other disciplines. In career and technical education, it is assumed that beyond soft skills such as time management and problem solving, program areas have little in common that could necessitate interdisciplinary collaboration. This study, which largely comprised analysis of competency lists of nine...
Relationship of job involvements on vocational school students’ job satisfactions in industrial training
July 2013
Industrial training is an important strategy to expose students to the real job situation so that they should be able to develop their job competency after completing their schooling. Industrial training program was known as the dual system program curriculum in vocational high schools. It was implemented for three to six months. This study examined the difference and relationship between job involvements...
Perception of supervisors about secondary schools vocational agricultural science teachers’ employability skills in Bauchi and Gombe States, Nigeria
July 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the supervisors’ perception of employability skills needed by graduates teaching Agriculture Science in secondary schools. Two research questions guided the study. The design of this study was a survey research design. The area for this study was Bauchi and Gombe States. The population for this study includes all the supervisors of Agriculture...
Further education for unsuccessful grades 9 to 12 school leavers in South Africa
November 2012
Statistics released by the Education Management Information Systems (EMIS), (2002 to 2009) reveal that 60% of learners entering Grade 9 leave school without attaining Grade 12 certificates. These learners do not qualify for employment because employers prefer well-trained experienced employees. A limited number (12 500 annually) of learnership and apprenticeship opportunities are also out of reach because...
Relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership styles of principals in high schools
November 2012
The purpose of the present research as a descriptive-correlative research was to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership styles of principals who work in high schools of Sanandj city in Iran. Sample included 42 high school principals and 252 teachers that were selected by proportional stratified sampling. The leadership styles profile (LSP) and emotional intelligence questionnaire were used...
Assessment of relevance of the national directorate of employment (NDE) training programmes to the needs of the trainees in Southwestern Nigeria
March 2012
The study assessed the operational schemes of the national directorate of employment (NDE), and the relevance of its training programmes to the needs of the trainees. The study adopted the survey design. Precisely, six states in the Southwestern Nigeria were used for the study. The sample comprises of 1, 200 trainees, 420 trainers and 120 ex-trainees selected from a population of 382, 792. The results showed that the...
Help wanted: Professional development and training for career and technical education faculty
March 2012
Career and technical education (CTE) instructors teach in an environment that requires simultaneous academic and occupational instruction that integrates theoretical and hands-on knowledge while working with a unique student population that has distinct learning needs. These instructors have the industry experience and in-depth content knowledge that is critical in the vocational classroom, but they are...
Pattern cutting skills in small scale garment industries and teacher education universities in Ghana
February 2012
The purpose of the study was to compare pattern cutting skills taught in Teacher Education Universities in Ghana with what were used in local small scale garment industries. Fifty small scale entrepreneurs in six regions of Ghana were purposively selected to demonstrate how to take body measurements and cut patterns for a lady’s fitting dress. Measurement and pattern cutting procedures used by the garment...
Secondary schools graduates’ attitude towards textbooks for vocational education
February 2012
The aim of the study is to evaluate the current condition of textbooks for pupils of secondary vocational schools and high schools within their technical education. We have focused on the contextual and didactical view of the textbooks as well as working with them and their structure. The survey was realised via an expert method and the survey sample was represented by first-year university students of the...
Teachers' quality of work life in secondary schools
January 2012
The purpose of this research as a causal-comparative design was to compare the rate of quality of work Life among technical and theoretical high school teachers in Kordestan province in Iran. Quality of work life is a process by which interest groups in the organization will learn how to work better together, how to determine for themselves what activities, changes and improvements are desirable and effective...
A supplementary web-based open-learning model for undergraduate projects
January 2012
Web-based open learning technology has become a powerful tool to supplement and enhance education. Web-based open learning facilitates individualised instruction. This paper proposes a web-based open technology model to supplement a face-to-face teaching project for final-year, full-time, on-campus undergraduate students participating in the Graduation Project 1 and Graduation Project 2 modules at the College...
The role of stakeholders in building adequate competences in students for the job market
November 2011
Competency is the acquisition of appropriate knowledge, attitudes, personality traits and skills to efficiently perform work place roles in industry, commerce, management and administration. Job competency is so important that employers always seek for people with such qualities before they are employed. It is therefore incumbent on educational institutions to train graduates to acquire the needed...
The effects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on higher education: From objectivism to social constructivism
November 2011
Higher education has been on the rollercoaster for the last couple of decades with the advent of the first personal computer in the 1980s and then the internet in the 1990s and not only explicitly in terms of using innovative digital gadgets, but also implicitly in perceptions about and approaches to e-learning from behaviourism through cognitive to social constructivism or more specifically, from transmitted...
The key challenges to peace in Nigeria
November 2011
Nigeria is faced by various devastating political and socio-economic conditions, with about 250 multicultural ethnic nationalities; Nigeria is plagued by religious, ethnic, communal and resource conflict. Large resources and benefits from oil wealth could not touch the lives of the people. Allegiances to ethnic groups come first before the Nigeria state. Resource control agitations in the Niger Delta have...
Demonstrating quality: Evaluation of institutional and programme accreditation in Ghana
November 2011
In response to the challenges of enhancing quality higher education, the government of Ghana established the National Accreditation Board (NAB), charged with the responsibility of ensuring the quality of higher education in Ghana. In pursuit of its mandate, the Board evolved a system of institutional and programme accreditation to ensure conformity with minimum standards and to enhance quality. This paper...
Liberalization and its impact on small scale industries
October 2011
Small-scale industries occupy a place of strategic importance in Indian economy in view of its considerable contribution to employment, production and exports. However, since 1991, small-scale industries in India find themselves in an intensely competitive environment due to globalization, domestic economic liberalization and dilution of sector specific protective measures. This paper probes the implications...
A methodology to evaluate both internal and external environments of applied-scientific educational system used in strategic planning
October 2011
In the present work, we introduce a new model to evaluate an educational system, namely the applied-scientific system. This model provides us with a deep knowledge of different aspects of educational system including its organizational weakness and strength. Within our approach, making use of the production function and the calculated education area function, it is also possible to recognize different...
Estimation of the Theileria parva entomological inoculation rate (EIR) by means of tick burden and proportion of infected questing ticks in three different farming systems in Rwanda
October 2011
A field study was carried out to determine the patterns of transmission of Theileria parvainfection (expressed as entomological inoculation rate (EIR)) between cattle and T. parvainfected Rhipicephalus appendiculatus ticks in three different farming systems in Rwanda. The EIR was measured for a given period of time as a product of the tick burden feeding on an animal and the proportion of...
Rethinking teacher-quality in an information age: Implications for pre-service business teacher production
September 2011
Information and communication technology (ICT) has permeated all nooks and crannies of our society. There is need for corresponding changes in the educational sector. It is the responsibility of the teachers training institutions to produce teaching manpower in accordance with the changes in the society. This paper examined the extent to which business teacher education programmes in Nigeria are ICT...
Information and communication technology awareness among technical college teachers in Benue State, Nigeria
September 2011
The study focused on information and communication technology awareness among technical college teachers in Benue State, Nigeria. Four research questions were asked to guide the study. A sample survey research design was adopted for the study. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data from the population of 106 respondents in the eight technical colleges in Benue State, that is, all the technical...
Linking tertiary institutions to industries: Evidence from the Vocational and Technical Education Department of the University of Cape Coast
August 2011
Despite the various reforms and attempts to relate the school curricula to the world of work, very few studies have been carried out to investigate the constraints and challenges of industrial and institutional linkages. This paper investigates specifically the Department of Vocational and Technical Education (VOTEC) of the University of Cape Coast and the inability of the department to link its students with...
The impact of enterprise systems on corporate performance
August 2011
This research studied the effect of investments in enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM) systems on a firm’s long-term stock price performance and profitability measures such as return on assets and return on sales. The results are based on a sample of 558 announcements of ERP implementations, 420 SCM implementations. Our analysis of the financial benefits of these...
Strategies for global reforms in business teacher education towards self-reliance in Nigeria
July 2011
Nigeria as a country had advocated for the type of education that would enhance the needed self-reliance for the learners and the society. Reforming business education programme would help in achieving the much desired self-reliance in Nigeria. This paper examined the conceptual issues of Business Teacher Education such Issues are: quality of candidates for business teachers training programme, training...
Empowering women through credit facilities for sustainable development in the developing countries
July 2011
This paper is set out to examine the empowerment for women trough credit facilities in the developing countries. Too much are often expected from women both at the monogamy and polygamy setting. Some women are the bread winners of their family, why some supplement the efforts of their husbands. Many find it difficult to make two ends meet, thereby resulting in junk food vendors or petty trading. Access to...
Role, objectives, requirements and activities of eLearning units in traditional universities
June 2011
It could be said for certain that eLearning has become an issue for the office of each university president, in view of the enormous benefits of incorporating it into a university system. The proliferation of eLearning in recent years has been imposed on the universities who would want to adopt some kind of eLearning to establish a committee or a unit for integrating and administrating it. Unfortunately,...
The approach of Romanian education from the European dimension perspective
June 2011
The European dimension showed up in the language of the educational politics at the end of the eighties. At the beginning, especially in the context of the article no. 149 to 150 of the European Union Agreement, the respective dimension refers to the efforts of mutual knowledge, the exchanges and common projects realized by the educational unities from the EU countries. It was obviously seen in a...
Complex adaptive systems: A trans-cultural undercurrent obstructing change in higher education
February 2011
It is possible that the “perfect storm” is brewing on the seas of change for higher education. This paper will address the urgent need for adaptive strategies for change within higher education institutions (HEIs) with a focus on Complex Adaptive Systems theory (CAS) as a means of explaining the disconnection between higher education and its environment. Unlike many social, economic and geopolitical issues...
ICT in vocational teaching/learning and research in Southeast Asian Countries: A case of Bangladesh
February 2011
This paper aims to emphasize the need of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching learning and research for the Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) in Bangladesh. ICT is one of the productive tools which is not effectively introduced till now in TVE system of Bangladesh. This paper discusses the status of ICT and its usage in the Technical and Vocational Institutes (Polytechnic...
A model for the operation of one college one innovation project, the office of vocational education commission
January 2011
The objective of one college one innovation project of bureau of vocation education standards and qualification, vocational education commission (VEC) is to study the process, evaluate teachers’ perception and project’s result. The case study are 285 executives and teachers from VEC and 27 selected persons with 14 test kits and 13 electronic kits. They are trained according to the operation till...
An assesment of the teaching effectiveness of prevocational subjects teachers in Ogun State Nigeria
January 2011
This study investigated the teaching effectiveness of prevocational subject teachers using descriptive survey research design. A total of 205 teachers selected through purposive and simple random sampling technique participated in the study. Three research questions were raised to guide the study. A validated instrument titled 'Teaching effectiveness scale' was used for data collection. The t-test of...
Blended learning in vocational education: An experimental study
October 2010
Technology is a key in modern production systems. Its use in education is increasing and various technology-based learning models have been developed. The definitions of blended learning are reviewed here from an instructional pedagogy point of view. A blended model can improve student performance and lead to more effective learning. A successful blended learning model can directly or indirectly result in...
New drivers of rural economies: University graduates in business formation in central province, Kenya
October 2010
University graduates from rural central province in Kenya are providing vast entrepreneurial spirit. This article uses field data to illustrate that graduates are fuelling economic growth in rural central Kenya as they are setting up small businesses in manufacturing, retail trade and services. In addition, they are running businesses professionally and are self motivated. They have a knack of taking...
The recruitment of private technical colleges in Taiwan
September 2010
Due to the innovation of Taiwan’s education strategy, options for the channel of advancing to higher education for students are unobstructed. The number of universities and colleges in Taiwan has grown from 137 to 162, as of today. The rapid development of higher education has raised many issues, such as the over supply of higher education market. Because decline in birth-rate, number of upcoming...
Impact of educational policy changes on home science education in secondary schools in Kenya: 1981 to 2005
September 2010
Home science is a pre-vocational subject in the Kenyan secondary school curriculum. It is designed to equip the learner not only with theoretical concepts, but also with skills that may lead to self employment. However, impact of the educational policy changes on home science education is yet to be established. The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of policy changes between 1981 and 2005 on home...
Integration of new technological innovations in automobiles into the curriculum for Nigerian technical college programmes
September 2010
The increased number of new sub-systems in modern automobiles, intended to improve upon their safety, economy and comfort among other things, have made them more sophisticated and complex to maintain. The curriculum for the training programmes of their maintenance personnel in Nigerian Technical Colleges has however, remained rigid since 1985, over two decades behind the state-of-the-art technologies. This...
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