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Statistical Analysis Of The Problems Associated With Skill Acquisition In Nigeria
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lack of acquisition of vocational skills on the part of individuals has
been considered the bane of the economy of African societies,
particularly Nigeria. This is so because in Nigeria for instance the
education operated at post independence placed emphasis on academic
excellence rather than acquisition of vocational skills which prepare
the individual for a more useful and fulfilling life within the society.
In other word, the system focused on and emphases subject in the
humanity of art at the expenses of vocational which can facilitate
practical skill acquisition that is generally believed to be more
relevant to the development of the nation. The system for so many years
was carried on entirely like that without any conscious or deliberate
effort to the cultural, social and ethical values of our society. It is
now a well know fact that the system failed to achieve the desired
objective that were expected from the education is considered the most
effective means of bringing about total change that would ensure
accelerated economic growth and national development for the country.
There was a need to tailor the educational system to suit the local
existential situation of Nigerians. This need culminated in the new
national policy on education promulgated in 1977 and revised recently in
1998.
A fundamental change brought about by the new national policy
on education was the recognition and introduction of vocational courses
in the educational curriculum. The policy therefore marked a deliberate
shift in emphasis from literary to science oriented education and
training. The policy was considered land able because it was capable of
promoting the appropriate skills at various levels of our educational
system and thus promoting individual and national efficiency. It was
also hope that the system would help check the high rate of unemployment
and bringing about economic and social revolution in the country by
producing self relent citizens if carefully pursued and implemented to
the letter.
Nigerian experience fell short of what was expected, the
problem then was over production of persons with litter or no relevant
vocational ability. The education and training of people in the country
remained lopsided. The adverse consequences was that the unemployment
rate assumed as alarming proportion, in it frantic effort to seek away
out of the problem, the Federal Government constituted a committee known
as the Chukwuma committee on the 26th of march 1986 to consider
appropriate strategies for dealing with the mass unemployment problem in
the country under the aegis of the ministry of Employment labour and
productivity. Under the policy, workers with no or little specialised
training are apprentice for a period of one to three years after
entering the enterprise. It is on record that the programme have
assisted tremendously in the country procurement of solution to
unemployment problem, shortage of skilled manpower and antisocial
activities
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The data for the study were collected from randomly selected tailors within Owerri municipal. A total number of 200 tailors were given questionnaire out of which 200 were returned. The X2 square test of independent and percentage were used in the analysis. Based on the analysis, it was found that the challenge faced by a male tailor is independent of their academic qualification. ... Continue reading---
