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Investigation Into The Consequences Of Office Technologies In Secretarial Education Curriculum In Nigerian Polytechnics
[A CASE STUDY OF INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, ENUGU]
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS
The incessant changes and advancements
in office automation has given rise to an urgent and constant training
of the employees who handle and operated these new machines. It should
be realized that most of these new high technological equipment like the
computers, which stole into the business offices throughout the world
unnoticed are very expensive to acquire and maintain and no organization
would like these all cost effective equipment to lie idle, waste or
become obsolete within a short period simply because there is no capable
hands or professional to handle them. Therefore, these technological
changes therefore represent a very demanding implication on the
secretarial education curriculum.
Since a lot of office work is based
on the basic knowledge of keyboarding and clerical skills, it becomes
apparent that if secretarial education curriculum in out polytechnics is
not reviewed, revisited and updated from time to time, to adequately
take care of these technological changes, the products turned out with
this curriculum might not be able to face challenges they are bound to
meet when they are finally employed.
If therefore, becomes apparent
that those concerned with the training and education of secretaries in
out polytechnics and other institutions of higher learning should always
adjust their curriculum so as to catch up and stay afloat with the
incessant technological changes and advancements. The problem then is
how far have Polytechnic especially Institute of Management and
Technology, Enugu been able to adjust its curriculum to reflect the
current development? How far have they been able to purchase the
required equipment necessary for the training of Secretaries? Do they
have qualified personnel to handle these equipment? Are the students
being adequately prepared for the business world/ These and many more
are what they research is out to answer.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The main purpose of this research work is to:
i. To find out the consequences of office technologies in secretarial education curriculum in I.M.T., Enugu.
ii. Find out cause of frequent changes in educational curriculum especially that of secretarial education programme performance.
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To ascertain whether these office technologies that are used in
different offices today are available in the department of Secretarial
Studies of Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu which is
actively involved in the training of secretaries
iv. Identify
whether the curriculum planners recognized these consequences before
going on the drawing board, especially as it concerns Secretarial
Duties.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was carried out to discover the possible consequences posed by the office technologies in secretarial education curriculum in Nigeria Polytechnics. This study was conducted using the Institute of Management and Technology (I.M.T) Enugu as a case study.The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire and literature review, while a total of four research question were also posed.The information collected from the respondents were analyzed using simple percentage method and ... Continue reading---
