MANAGEMENT OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM FOR YOUTH’S EMPLOYABILITY IN PORT HARCOURT CITY LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA
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The impact of technical and vocational education in making the youths skillful and employable cannot be over emphasized. This is the reason why the researcher used descriptive research design to assess the extent to which technical and vocational education curriculum is being managed to put the youths in the employment market. The population is comprised of all Senior Technical and vocational students in Senior Secondary 3 who are at the verge of leaving the school. They are two hundred and thirty five (235). With a simple random sampling technique, a sample of 117 was used as the target respondents. A questionnaire titled “Management of Technical and Vocational Education Curriculum for Youth Employability” (MTVECYE) in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. The instrument was validated by two experts from measurement and Evaluation, Educational Foundations Department and one from the Educational Management Department, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, with a reliability index of 0.07. The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The findings show that though, so much has been done on technical and vocational education curriculum, no much impact has been felt on skills and employability of the youths. The research concluded that more efforts should be made on the skill acquisition as its importance on the employment of the youths is very paramount. The researcher therefore recommended amongst others, that the government should equip the technical and vocational schools more with both material and human resources.
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