Abstract
The study determined the Entrepreneurship Training Strategies needed by Electrical/Electronic Technology Education EETE lecturers for sustainable skills development of students of Colleges of Education (Technical) and job creation in South-East Nigeria. It was guided by two purposes of studies, two research questions and two null hypotheses. The study adopted a census survey research design. The population was 45 EETE lecturers in the three colleges of education (technical) offering EETE programme in Anambra, Abia, and Enugu States. There was no sampling due to the manageable size of the population. The instrument for data collection was 21 items structured questionnaire based on the two research questions that guided the study. The instrument was validated, and the reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha which yielded 0.85. Mean, standard deviation and ANOVA were used to analyze the data. Specifically, the study identified activity-based method required by EETE lecturers towards sustainable skills development colleges of education (technical) students for job creation in the southeast of Nigeria. The findings of the study revealed that giving tasks to students based on what was taught in the class, giving a peer project work to the students, engaging the students through a co-operative work training, exposing the student to the work study of the industry are among the entrepreneurship training strategies needed by EETE lecturers. Based on the findings, the study recommended that there should be establishments of training programmes by the government to expose the EETE lecturers to the activity learning based training strategy and there should be collaboration between the institutes and industries to enable them create a working atmosphere for the students to compliment what they have learnt. However, the study concluded that sustainable skill development and job creation among the students of colleges of education (Technical) can be achievable through adoption of entrepreneurship training strategy by EETE lecturers. Thus, acquisition and sustainable development of skill is a key element in creation of job and self-employment.
Keyword: Skills Development, Job Creation, Electrical/Electronic Technology Education, Entrepreneurial Training Strategies
Publication Date: 2023-09-09