CONSTRAINTS TO FUNCTIONAL HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT IN ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION IN EBONYI STATE OF NIGERIA

James E Ogbu

Abstract


Functional electronics technology education human resources development is a cardinal step toward general technological development in any country in this electronic age. Hence, this study investigated the constraints to functional electronics technology education human resources development in Ebonyi state of Nigeria. Two research questions and two research hypotheses guided the study and the research design adopted was descriptive survey. The population of the study comprised all the electronics technology educators (lecturers) and non- academic staff (technologists) of electronic Technology Education totaling 18 only. Due to this few number of electronics personnel, there was no sampling. Instrument for data collection was questionnaire. Data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05. level of significance. The findings among others, revealed that lack of in-service training, negative reward system, discouraging condition of service and discriminatory employment opportunities against qualified electronics educators and personnel are the constraints to functional electronics technology education human resources development in Ebonyi state of Nigeria. It was then recommended that Ebonyi state government should summarily eradicate all the constraints to functional human resources development in electronic technology education in Ebonyi State of Nigeria.

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