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: 2016-06-14