Raymond Emmanuel, Ajunwa Joseph & Mohammed Aminu Mohammed (2019). Needed Innovative Practices among Public-Private Partnership Stakeholders in Technical and Vocational Education for Enhancing Skill Training of the Underprivileged.

Abstract

The study determined innovative practices in accessing and mobilizing resources for technical and vocational skill training of the underprivileged. Two research question and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study employed descriptive survey research design. Random Sampling was employed to select 30 respondents that consisted of 10 Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) administrators and 20 TVE private partners in Niger State, Nigeria. A 18-item structured questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. To ensure the validity of the instrument it was subjected to content validity by three TVE experts after which their suggestions and corrections were reflected on the final copy of the instrument that was used for data collection. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was established to be 0.89 using Cronbach Alpha formula. Data collected was analyzed using mean for research questions and t-test for hypotheses. Results revealed 10 innovative practices in improving access to technical and vocational skill training of the underprivileged and 8innovative practices in mobilizing resources for technical and vocational skills training of the underprivileged. Finding on innovative practices in improving access to technical and vocational skill training are: periodic mobile technical and vocational education training for rural and remote populations, identify and recogniz.ng philanthropist that encouraged to reduce pressure on TVE public funding by paying for expansion ofare encouraged with national honours as TVE ambassador, enrollments of advert centre where potential TVE work force establishment of TVE internet equips