Ways of Reposition Vocational and Technical Education Programme in Senior Secondary Schools of Niger State

Abstract

The Study was designed to determine ways of re positioning Vocational and Technical education at senior secondary school level in Niger State. Specifically the study assessed vocational. and Technical Education subjects offered in senior secondary schools .problerns facing Vocational and Technical Education in senior secondary schools and ways to re position Vocational and Technical Education in senior secondary schools of Niger State. Three research questions and two hypotheses were formulated based on these to guide the study and the hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research was adopted to seek the views of 212 Administrators! Teachers and 558 students of senior secondary schools in Niger State using simple random sampling technique. A 32- item questionnaire was developed by the researchers and validated by experts in Industrial and Technology Education and used for data collection. Mean, standard deviation and Z- test were used to analyze the data. The findings from the study revealed that only 2 technical subjects were offered in senior secondary schools, poor funding, shortage of teachers were the problems hindering the implementation of the programme. Aiso, some ways of repositioning VTE were identified. Based on these findings it was recommended among others that; Vocational and Technical Education programme in National Policy of Education should be fully implemented in senior secondary schools and there should be adequate public enlightenment campaign on the importance of the vocational and technical education as a tool for National Development.