CHALLENGES MILITATING AGAINST THE SMOOTH OPERATIONS OF TECHNICAL COLLEGES IN EKITI STATE AS PERCIEVED BY PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS
Keywords:
Challenges, Smooth Operations, Technical Challenges, Perception, Principals and TeachersAbstract
Vocational and technical educations goal is to train manpower who are skillful technologically in their field of study for the nation’s economic growth. Technical education contributes immensely to our dangling economy through skill acquisition, the entire nation will be a home for improvement practice technologically. The study adopted descriptive survey research design because the opinion of principals and teachers were viewed through questionnaire. The population of the study comprises of all principals and teachers in all technical colleges in Ekiti state. Five principals and fifty teachers were sampled for this study. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the sample for the study. A researcher designed questionnaire was used for the data collection and it was validated by three experts. The instrument was tested for reliability by administering the questionnaire to fifteen respondents twice within an interval of two weeks and subjected to Cronbach alpha statistics which yielded a result of 0.76. The research instrument was administered to the respondents by the researcher and was retrieved immediately. The instrument was sorted, coded and analysed using mean and standard deviation. The study revealed that the level of funding of technical colleges by government in Ekiti state is low; the government readiness to train technical personnel in Ekiti state is low and government level of readiness to equip technical colleges in Ekiti state is low. As a matter of urgency, government should embark on serious sensitization on technical education and equip the organisation with modern equipment that will revamp our nations dwinding economy. In conclusion, government should be more committed to allocate substantial amount to fund technical colleges and government reorganise technical teachers training program (TTTP) and localized training, seminar and workshop needs to be overhauledReferences
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