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

Abstract

The study was designed to determine ways of repositioning vocational and technical education at senior secondary school level in Niger state. Specifically, the study assessed Vocational and technical education subjects in senior secondary, problems facing vocational and technical education in senior secondary schools and ways to reposition vocational and technical education in senior secondary schools of Niger state. Three research question and two hypotheses were formulated 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 Administrator/Teachers and 558 students of senior secondary schools in Niger state using simple random sampling technique. A 32 items questionnaire was developed by the researchers and validated by experts in Industrial and Technology Education Department and used for data collection. Mean and 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, and shortage of teachers were the problems hindering the implementation of the programme. Also, 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 as a tool for national development.