Assessment of the View of Final Year Students on Vocational Skill Acquisition: A Case Study of School of the Secondary Education Vocational and Technical Programme Education FCE (SP.) Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
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Abstract
The study examines the perception of final year students on the proficiency of their three (3) years vocational skills acquisition. The study was conducted over a period of one year from September, 2017 to September 2018 with the school of secondary education (Vocational and Technical Programme) as a case study. Sixty (60) respondents were randomly selected. A structured questionnaire was developed to elicit the necessary information from the selected respondents. The data collected was analyzed using simple percentage and mean. The study revealed that the final year students have acquired optimum skills in their course of study that can make them to be self-employed after graduation. The study also revealed that not all the vocational skills identified during the study required huge amount of capital to start, meaning that majority of the students are willing to start up one or two things after the completion of their programme rather than looking for a white-collar job. It is therefore concluded that survival of individual in a given society is very much dependent on the acquisition of useful skills needed by them to become self-employed. Majority of the final year students ( ) were not interested in starting their own business after the completion of their training programme rather than looking for a paid job. The study recommended among others that the government, policy maker and other stakeholders should contribute immensely to the development of SIWES programme in Colleges of education. Training and re- training services should be arranged by the school for all vocational and technical education lecturers and instructors to improve on their effective skills in vocational education. Bursary and scholarship should be given to all the intending vocation and technical students as incentives to study the course.