Competencies Needed by Vocational and Technical Teachers towards the Development of Entrepreneurial Skills in Students

Abstract

This study identified those competencies needed by Vocational and technical teachers for developing entrepreneurial skills in their students. To achieve this objective, four research questions were developed and answered while four null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of signifcance. The population for the study was 123 respondents made up of 87 male and 36 female vocational and technical education (VTE) Lecturers in Federal Capital Territory College of Education, Abuja and Niger State College of Education, Minna. A 55 items structured questionnaire was developed from the literature reviewed for the study and utilized in collecting data. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The structured questionnaire was face-validated by 5 experts in vocational and technical education and entrepreneurship education from Taiye Solarin University of Education Ijagun, Ogun State. The Cronbach alpha method was used to compute the reliability of the questionnaire to obtain a co-efficient of 0.77. Mean was used to answer the research questions, standard deviation was used to determine how close or otherwise are the responses of the respondents are to mean and to one another, while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that there are general Personality attribute and attitude, managerial and basic competencies needed by the vocational and technical teachers for developing entrepreneurial skills in students. The study further found out that there was no significant difference in the mean ratings of the responses of male and female VTE teachers competencies needed by Vocational and technical teachers for developing entrepreneurial skills in their students. It was therefore recommended that the competencies discovered in this study should packaged and included in curriculum of VTE teacher programme and VTE teachers should endeavor to make their college graduates job creators rather than job seekers