Strategies for Improving Students’ Enrolment into Vocational Technical Education Programmes of Universities in South East, Nigeria

Abstract

The study delimited the strategies for improving Students’ Enrolment into Vocational and Technical Education Programmes in Universities in south East, Nigeria. Four research questions were answered and four null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population of study was 370 lecturers in technical vocational education in Universities in South East. The entire population was used for the study since the population was manageable. Instrument for data collection was a researcher-made questionnaire duly validated and the reliability of the instrument was tested using Cronbach alpha, which yielded a co-efficient index of 0.87. The researcher and five research assistants administered and retrieved the questionnaire. One hundred percent return rate was achieved. Mean and standard deviations was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found seven guidance counselors strategies, seven parental related strategies, seven non- governmental / Donor agencies strategies and seven governmental strategies for improving Students’ Enrolment into Vocational and Technical Education Programmes in Universities in Nigeria. It was recommended among others that the government should re-address the issue of funding and providing enabling environment that favors TVET programmes to ease learning-by-doing and there should be a regular supervision, monitoring and evaluation of TVET programs in Nigeria universities.