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The Effect of Vocational Education on Skilled Workforce and Manpower

 Development: A Study of Secondary Schools in Taraba State of Nigeria

Shadrach Brandford Adams      1-19                                                                       

Women and Political Marginalization in Nigeria

Ake Modupe; Rasak Bamidele; Olowojolu  Olakunle; Oye Olubukoye &  Ake Susan  20-55

Government Policy of Carrying Capacity and Enrolment to University

Education in Nigeria: Basic Realities

Agbonlahor, Adenike Adetola      55-79                                                                           

GOVERNMENT POLICY OF CARRYING CAPACITY AND ENROLMENT TO UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: BASIC REALITIES

Agbonlahor, Adenike Adetola

Federal College of Education, Osiele Abeokuta Ogun State

agbonlahoradenike@gmail.com

Abstract

Education is considered by many people as the panacea for national development. This explains the reasons many nations emphasize the need for educational policy in designing their plan for accelerated development. Thus, various programmes have been launched in Nigeria aimed at universalizing access and promoting equity in educational opportunity for the citizenry. Access to education is equally given a place in the National Policy in education. Furthermore, also enshrined in the Nigeria constitution is equity, as contained in section 18 of 1999. However, the demand for education especially at the university level has grown higher than supply, making the university system to outgrow the resources available to it to continue offering high quality education. In an effort to maintain quality and standard, the National Universities Commission (NUC) adopted the policy of carrying capacity. Unfortunately, this policy poses an impediment to access. Therefore, this paper examined the meaning of carrying capacity and having university education. The work under consideration also highlight the quest and availability of education at the tertiary level in Nigeria, matters carried in the policy that directs carrying capacity and its impediments vis-à-vis having university education in our country. Finally, the paper provides the way forward to enhance university carrying capacity and make having university education expensive. Suggestions include improved funding, facilities/infrastructure, dual mode universities, amongst others.

Keywords: Policy of carrying capacity, enrolment, demand and supply of university education

WOMEN AND POLITICAL MARGINALIZATION IN NIGERIA

Ake Modupe¹; Rasak Bamidele^2; Olowojolu  Olakunle³; Oye Olubukoye⁴ &  Ake Susan⁵

^1,3Department of Political Science 2; Department of Sociology College of Business and Social Sciences, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State

 ^4,5Department of Mass Communication Base University, Abuja

E-mail: delerasak@yahoo.co.uk, delerasak@gmail.com

Abstract

The word marginalization is a social process of becoming or being relegated to the fringe of society. Marginalization at the individual level results in an individual’s exclusion from meaningful participation in society. An example of marginalization at the community level is the marginalization of women. Women are excluded from the labour force and their work in the home is not economically valued and compensated. Feminists’ theorists argued that women should equally participate in the labour force, both in the public and private sectors. Today, it is argued that women are still marginalized from executive positions and continue to earn less than men at upper management cadres. In this study, the concept of marginalization and women political participation is critically examined. It also examines the steps and procedures being followed in order to encourage women to participate in politics during the last democratic dispensation of the Jonathan administration; for example, the Women for Change Initiative and the Women Empowerment Programme. The study examines the problems faced by women during elections in Nigeria due to violence; harassment and electoral malpractices and the level of performance of various women elected into various offices.

Keywords: Marginalization, Women participation, Political participate n, Political administration

THE EFFECT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ON SKILLED WORKFORCE AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN TARABA STATE OF NIGERIA.

Shadrach Brandford Adams

DepartmentofGeneralStudies

Federal Polytechnic Bali, Taraba State- Nigeria

E-mail: shadrachb.adams@yahoo.co.uk

Abstract

The study examines the effect of vocational education on skilled workforce and manpower development with focus on secondary schools in Taraba State of Nigeria. It argues that the impact of technology on occupations, the tendency of employers to set higher educational requirements, and the need for employees with specialized training have made vocational education imperative. Thus, the high rate of imbalance and shortage of skilled personnel in the essential sectors of the state can be balanced through proper vocational education right from the secondary school level. The study adopted survey research design. It employed both quantitative and qualitative methods of obtaining data. The target population of the study was the secondary schools in Taraba State. Equally, to ensure reliability, results were determined using percentage, mean and standard deviation. The findings of the study shows that vocational education or career guidance and counseling can rightly develop skilled workforce in the state while lack of it in schools can significantly affect career choice among students  and in the long-term affecting the availability of skilled manpower in the critical sectors of the state.

Keywords: Vocational, education, skilled workforce, manpower, development