• Investigation Into The Causes Of Students Poor Attitude Towards The Study Of Secretarial Administration In Tertiary Institutions
    [A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE]

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    • 1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS:
      For quite sometime now, there has been a decline on the number of prospective school learners who offer secretarial studies in tertiary institutions.
      Moreover, a higher percentage of those who apply to read the course nowadays has been observed to be females.
      In another development, some students offering the course claimed that it was their inability to fit into other various prestigious discipline that made them to settle for the secretarial profession.
      This ugly development has continued as a matter of fact to be a source of worry to business educators and management of tertiary institutions that offer this course.
      It is however envisaged that if this situation continues unchecked, there will be a serious scarcity of efficient and proficient secretaries to man the various business offices spans up in every part of the country.
      In a similar development, some secretarial positions demand a masculine hand equally avoid all these feminish “leaves” prominent among the female secretaries.
      It has also been observed that some students do not receive guidance and counselling in order to know the importance of the course.
      It is in view of these enormous indispensable and challenging studies of the present day secretary that the researcher delved into the study in order to investigate, analyse the cause for students poor attitude towards the study of secretarial studies in tertiary institutions in Enugu State and this recommend valuable and lasting solutions too.
      1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:
      1. To investigate whether there are equipment for the teaching and learning of the course.
      2. To find out why many students are not interested in secretarial administration course.
      3. To investigate whether students were being guided by a guidance and councilor before choosing courses?
      4. To find out why women have dominated the profession?
      5. To make suitable recommendation on the major courses of students poor attitude towards the study of secretarial administration in tertiary institutions in Enugu State.

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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The purpose of carrying out this research was to investigate on the causes of students poor attitude towards the study of secretarial studies in tertiary institutions in Enugu state. In order to obtain the requires data, the researcher use some selected tertiary institutions in Enugu State with a total population of 610 respondents, 400 respondents were used as the sample size while instrument for data collection were questionnaire, text books and personal observation. Three research questions w ... Continue reading---