IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

International Journal of Education and Evaluation (IJEE )

E-ISSN 2489-0073
P-ISSN 2695-1940
Vol. 1 No.8, 2015

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Technical and Vocational Students’ Attitude towards Palm Kernel Oil Extractive Industries in Government Technical Colleges, Enugu

Onwukwe, Chukwuemeka S. O; Ibe, Chinedu; Okonmah, Dinma P

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Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the Technical and Vocational Students’ Attitudes towards Palm Kernel Oil Extractive Industries in Government Technical Colleges (GTC), Enugu, based on assessment of Industrial Training (IT) in knowledge acquisition and manipulative skills of students for technological transformation and entrepreneurship in our developing nation. The study adopted survey research technique. Three research questions and one hypothesis were adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of SSII students of the two main public-owned Government Technical Colleges in Enugu numbering 1,554 students. The researchers adopted stratified random sampling method to select 96 students as respondents from each of two of the Technical Colleges in the State. Thereafter, a sample of 192 student- respondents was selected for the study. Closed-ended questionnaire was constructed to obtain opinions of respondents. The instrument was face-validated by experienced educationists in Enugu State College of Education (Technical) and principals of the two Technical Colleges. The findings revealed that students have poor attitude because of little interest in Palm Kernel Oil Extractive Industry due to absence of compulsory internship through industrial training. One of the recommendations given is that, the school management should restructure their curricula to include compulsory Industrial Training at such industries in Enugu before graduating the students so as to enable them develop the necessary knowledge and skills and attitudes required in extractive industries.

keywords:

Extractive Industries, Industrial Training, Entrepreneurship, Internship, Curricula.

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