Email this article Business Education Lecturers’ Acuity of Strategies for Improving Teaching and Learning of Technical Vocational Education and Training in Universities in South-East Nigeria
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This study assessed the strategies for improving the teaching and learning of technical and vocational education and training in universities in South-East Nigeria as perceived by Business Education lecturers. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The population, which also served as sample comprised all business education lecturers in South East Nigeria. The questionnaire was used for data collection, which was validated by 4 experts; 2 from Vocational and Technical Education and 2 from measurement and evaluation department. The instrument has a Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of 0.84. The mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study showed that the challenges facing VTE include apathy towards VTE, inadequate curriculum and inadequate infrastructural facilities. Others include remuneration of teachers, inadequate funding, and government neglect among others. The study also revealed that Government positive attitude toward vocational education, provision of adequate funding, provision of infrastructure and teaching facilities are strategies to improve the teaching and learning of VTE. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that Government should provide adequate funding for the vocational and technical education programme.
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