Abstract
The study determined occupational contents required for boosting enrolment of students into
industrial technical education programme of universities in Enugu State. Three research
questions guided the study while three null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of
significance. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population for the study was 116
comprising 86 lecturers of industrial technical education and 20 instructors. Purposive sampling
technique was employed to select 116 lecturers and instructors from the universities offering
industrial technical education in Enugu State. The instrument for data collection was structured
questionnaire and three experts validated the instrument while Cronbach alpha reliability method
was used to determine the internal consistency of the items and a coefficient of 0.84 was
obtained. Mean was used to answer three research questions while t test statistic was used to
test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found out 37 technical occupations,
68 tasks and 15 procedures that could be utilized by lecturers to attract students to industrial
technical education programmes of Universities. There was no significant difference in the mean
responses of lecturers and instructors on the technical occupations, tasks and procedures that
could be utilized by lecturers to attract students to industrial technical education programmes of
universities. Based on these findings, it was recommended that all the occupational areas and
corresponding tasks identified in this study should be integrated to industrial technical education
programme of Nigerian universities. It was also recommended that training procedures
determined should be employed by lecturers and instructors for effective implementation of
industrial technical education programmes
Publication Date: 2016-06-06