Statistical Analysis of the Problems Associated With Skill Acquisition in Nigeria (a Case Study of Male Tailors in Imo State)
CHAPTER ONE
AIMS AND OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
To evaluate the problems associated with skills acquisition in Nigeria.
To identify what stratagem that can be adopted to improve skill acquisition in male tailoring.
To suggest ways of encouraging skills acquisition in the country.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
Nigeria like most developing nations of the world is faced with myriad problems and hares realities which include poverty, unemployment, conflict and diseases. There situation pose great challenge to the very existence of individuals in most developing nations there by calling for the training for educated men and women who can function effectively in the society in which they live in, available information by National Universities Commission (NUC 2004) reiterate the massive unemployment of Nigeria universities and polytechnic graduates in the country. This problem is said to be traceable to the disequilibrium between labour market requirement and lake of essential employable skills by the graduates (Diejonah and Orimolade 1991, Dabohaten, Omi, and Adekola 2000). This obvious critical skill gaps inhibits the development of youth and the entire development of the nation.
The youthful period which is a very critical one that has been noted as an essential time for training in entrepreneurship, provide a positive distractive alternative from the self destructive and aggressive behaviour that are frequently associated with adolescences and growing up (woolfk 1998) in a study of America adolescences in 1998, it was reported that a good number of the youth had a little information about life and life expectation.
Entrepreneurship and skill acquisition is the willingness and ability of an individual to seek out investment opportunities, establish and run an enterprise successfully (inegbehebor 1987). The entrepreneur is essentially a person who owns or controls a business through which income is gained. National Directorate of Employment (NDE 1989 in onyebueke and ochonogo 2002) defined entrepreneurship as the art which involves recognizing a business opportunity, mobilizing resources and persisting to exploit that opportunity. According to Gana (2001), entrepreneurship is the ability to seek investment opportunities and establish an enterprise based on identified opportunities. The entrepreneur takes risk, and focused and energized by an inner drive. The ability to develop a new venture or apply a new approach to an old business is sole idea of entrepreneurship (sterriftoff and Durge 1993). In other words the resources in a new way, Esomonu(1998) defined entrepreneurship as the effective manipulation of human intelligence as demonstrated in a creative performance. This singular risk taking act leads an individual to create something of value from practically nothing.
According to Anaya (2006), the entrepreneur is one who chooses or assumes risk, identify business opportunity, gather resources, initiate action and establish an organisation or enterprise to meet such demand or market opportunity. From this definition the entrepreneur is seen as an independent, self sufficient individual who is willing to sick or swim with his/her ideas. It can thus be asserted that an entrepreneur is a person who in did to survive makes profit and owns business. He/she effectively utilize his/her abilities and potentials confidently. He/she takes risk, is focused and is energized by an inner drive. He/she equally sacks and exploits employment opportunities, applied creativity aggressively, takes initiative as he/she seeks market opportunities. The entrepreneurs further awakens his/her ability to maximize his/her potentials through the discovering of new and existing business ideas as he/she uses proven principal in managing small and medium scale business until they grow. He/she also create the platform for the exchange of ideas and training in skills acquisitions. Through the process involve in entrepreneurship, success habits are impacted as the person develop entrepreneurial integrity. Entrepreneurship skills are equally learnt in the process. The question is thus what are the possible challenges that will arise in getting Nigerian youth empowered to acquire skills and ideas for the sake of creating employment for themselves and others? To what extent can Nigeria face the critical challenge for the development of small, medium and large scale business that will latter metamorphose into national development among Nigerian youth? In answering these questions this paper examines the following: The rules of entrepreneurship education in national development, constraints that can hinder entrepreneurship in Nigeria and strategies for promoting effective entrepreneurship education in Nigeria. Also x-rayed are creativity, problems-solving and entrepreneurship, and strategies for promoting entrepreneurship among Nigerian youths.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The ex-post facto research design was employed for this study. This design was employed because the researchers were not in the manipulation of any of the independent variables. The population for this study comprised apprentices and master trainers of the vocational skilled training programme in male tailoring in Imo state of Nigeria. The master trainers are those who provide vocational training for participate at the various designed centres scatter all over the state and provide shops.
The sample consisted of two hundred (200) respondents made of two hundred (200) master trainers randomly selected from difference private shops in owerri municipal.
The questionnaire was designed to gather information on the facilities available, the objective of the programme. The respondents were expected to react to the questionnaire by either YES or NO with the items where appropriate as well as rating some of the items in order of importance. Copies of the questionnaire were administered during the research visit to the shops and the completed questionnaire was returned.
LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
In the course of carrying out this research, the following problems were encountered,
1-Selection of the appropriate question to be included in the questionnaire also limited the study to some extent.
2-Low responses rate, some of the respondent found it very difficult to complete the questionnaire administered to them.
3-Low return rate, most respondents were too busy to complete the questionnaire there by delaying the time of return of the questionnaire.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA ANALYSIS
Question 1: What major challenge do you face in your work?
Table 1 : Distribution of major challenge faced by individual
CHAPTER FIVE
CONCLUSION
The importance of skills acquisition as a panacea to youth development cannot be over emphasized. It therefore goes without saying that the needs and aspiration of young people require attention as no government will take the risk of ignoring youth development. The youth are invaluable material in nation building as they are the leaders of tomorrow. As such, it is the responsibility of all stakeholders in the national development project consisting of the governmental agenise, international development partners, wealthy individuals, the organized private sectors and parent to see that the youths in their early years are properly nurtured through skill acquisition in preparation for their effective role in the society. This entails a multi-dimensional approach involving all stakeholders in the development process.
The restructuring of the nation’s education curriculum and mass mobilization of youth is a sine qua non for a change of value system and pro-activeness to skill acquisition and personal intellectual development. The onerous task before the youth and other stakeholders in national development is to succinctly explore and exploit the youth potentials by creating the opportunities for effective application and utilization of their latent and manifest attribute or traits. This is a pre-requisite for the socio-economic and industrial development of the country and indisputable determinate of the country being among the top twenty economic in year 2020.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The following suggestion will go a long way in revitalizing skills acquisition the development of youth in developing countries and Nigeria in particular.
- The restructuring of the education curriculum at all level of education in Nigeria with more emphasis and focus on vocational, teaching and entrepreneurial skills
- A youth trade fair programme (YTFP) should be organization for the youth to showcase their talent. This will encourage the youth to imbibe the culture of skill acquisition.
- Proper and adequate funding of youth programme and agencies at all level of government in Nigeria
- The raising of the youth’s national consciousness and patriotisms to the national development objective.
- The involvement and participation of the youth in the formation and implementation of youth programmes.
- The diversification of the economy with more emphasizes on non-oil products.
- Individual legislations should establish youth acquisition centre in their constituencies and should assist the graduate of these centre with the wherewithal to acquire the necessary tools.
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