Soyemi, Jumoke (2018) Towards Development of Industry-Needs Based Curriculum in TVET Programmes: A criteria for National Development. In: CAPA 40th Anniversary International Conference, August 26 - 31, 2018, Nicon Luxury Hotel, Abuja.
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Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) aside from providing general education is established for training and practical skill development opportunities that attunes to national and local contexts. TVET graduates should be competent enough to apply scientific knowledge to improve and solve environmental problems. However, graduates from various TVET programmes have failed to justify this purpose. This paper looks into the present curriculum using the Department of Computer Science curriculum as a case study to identify this missing link. Descriptive and Inferential Statistical analysis carried out on 50 graduates of the department explicitly working in Information Technology (IT) firms as Developers to identify whether the knowledge and skills acquired in school were sufficient for their career take off, revealed a wide gap between the present curriculum and the trends in the industry. The results obtained from the study showed that 62% passed through further skill acquisition training that created employment opportunities for them, 14% trained before admission for the TVET programme while 24% were able to learn on the job. Empirical analysis also showed that the position of the participants did not differ significantly in their mean perception of TVET programs as evidenced from the F statistic of 1.690 with an associated P-value of 0.195 > 0.05 significance level. This study, therefore, proposes the development of industry-needs based curriculum that equips students for the labour market which will hence, translate into the industrial and sustainable economic growth and development so desired
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Dr J. Soyemi |
| Date Deposited: | 30 May 2020 15:06 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2020 15:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/275 |
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