Industrial & Technology Education

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    The Effects of Abandonment of Projects in Plateau State, Nigeria
    (International Journal of Engineering Research and Development, 2021) Alaezi, J.O.; Rugu, E.A.; Marut, J.J.; Igwe, C.O.
    Public Project particularly infrastructural projects are intended to provide new products and services to the community and at the same time promote the beauty of the environment however, their abandonment has led to so many negative effects. The study has determined the effects of abandonment of projects in plateau state, Nigeria. Quantitative method of data collection was employed in the study using close ended questionnaire. The data analysis tool that was employed for this study is the relative importance index (R.I.I). The RII was used to analyzed data obtained for the effects of abandonment of projects; the highest value of RII was ranked 1 and so on. Also descriptive statistics was employed to analyze the background of the respondents. It has been discovered from the research that, project abandonment has at least (15) far-reaching effects on national development. Cost overrun which was ranked first (1 ) with 91.00% is a very significant effect of project st abandonment, when projects are abandoned it leads to increase in the initial cost of the project, the final cost of the project will be exceeded leading to the initial cost of the project as a result of non-completion of projects within the agreed contract period. Other effects of project abandonment include: discouragement of investment is 89.00%, wastage of expended resources 88.00%, affects economic growth 86.00%, leads to unemployment 85.00%, hide out for criminals 83.00%, time overrun 82.00%, disappointment to the prospective users 81.00%, increase risk and project becomes obsolete and affects the aesthetics of the built environment 80.00%, affects quality 79.00% and reduces revenue 79.00%, technological backwardness 78.00% and finally reduces standard of living with 72.00%. It can be inferred that project abandonment has great effect on cost
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    Repositioning Vocational and Technical Education for effective manpower production in Nigeria
    (International Organization of Scientific Research, 2012) Atsumbe, B.N.; Raymond, E.; Igwe, C.O.; Atsumbe, J.A.
    To meet the challenges of technological change that can support economic growth and to guarantee equal access to opportunities and employment, Vocational and Technical Education must be available to a substantially greater proportion of young people and adult alike. In this paper Vocational and Technical Education has been identified as the most reliable veritable vehicle that can be used in preparing skilled manpower for the nation. Major constraints to vocational and technical education such as historical legacy from colonial rule, societal attitudes government lip service to vocational education, lack of adequate teaching man power, problems of management and organization of VTE, relevance of curriculum, poor state of infrastructures and training equipment amongst others. The paper also made a number repositioning strategies for quality manpower production. These includes a general re-orientation of the concept of Vocation; re-organization and management of Vocational education; new capacity building strategy for Vocational teachers, new funding approach, collaboration with employers accreditation and automatic streaming of students among others. Keywords: Repositioning, Vocational and Technical Education, Manpower production
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    Impact of E-learning on employability development of Vocational Technical Education pre-service teachers for national security
    (Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies, 2013) Saba T.M.; Igwe, C.O.; Mogaji, J.O.; Mustapha, M.J.
    This paper examined the impact of e-learning on employability development of Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) Pre-service Teachers for national security. As employability skills is highly required for one to be a successful VTE Teacher and Technician or technologist. Employability Skills are usually not formally taught as part of the VTE curriculum content. The coming of e-learning as innovation in VTE will provide graduates’ opportunities to acquire these employability skills if the lecturers employed this method in teaching. This paper focused on VTE Teachers Training Programmes in Nigeria, e- learning techniques, employability skill needs of VTE teachers and the impact of e-learning on employability skills development for national security. It has become necessary for VTE Lecturers to employ e-learning as one of the methods of training VTE Teachers. Because of the advent of knowledge economy, e-learning has been one of the high priorities promoted in higher education with the hope of bringing innovations that enhance quality in education. This work has a great impact to pre-service teacher of VTE programme as the knowledge of e-learning can build employability skill which they can apply in teaching after graduation.