In response to the increasing level of unemployment and the recent global trend of shifting individual economy prosperity from jobs to entrepreneurship and in the quest for fulfillment of the national goals of providi...In response to the increasing level of unemployment and the recent global trend of shifting individual economy prosperity from jobs to entrepreneurship and in the quest for fulfillment of the national goals of providing effective and self-reliant citizens,the revised National Policy on Education introduced 34 new entrepreneur/vocational subjects from which every student is mandated to pick one subject with the hope that she/he may practically apply as sustainable trade for self-reliance and possible personal economic prosperity.The educational administrators and managers at school level are further mandated to ensure a successful implementation of the curriculum.This study evaluates the curriculum 2007 using a census survey approach.Specifically,the most offered trade/entrepreneurship subjects were identified using a validated researcher made inventory and the questions of whether the subjects are relevant to the students’aspirations,the level of practical application of the trade learnt,and the level of quality of teachers handing the vocational subjects were examined through the administration of the instrument to 4,900 senior secondary school graduates,1,400 teachers,and 350 principals and directors in North-Western Nigeria.The study found four most prevalent subjects offered to be animal husbandry and fisheries,and it was also found that 71%of the teachers teaching the vocational subjects are not qualified to teach the subjects and the 71%of the students are not willing to practice the vocation learnt as trade.Among other things,complete revisiting of the curriculum 2007 was recommended where the subjects will be reduced from 34 to 10 through merger of many related subjects,and subjects like fisheries and animal husbandry should be merged with agriculture and the subject made compulsory.展开更多
文摘In response to the increasing level of unemployment and the recent global trend of shifting individual economy prosperity from jobs to entrepreneurship and in the quest for fulfillment of the national goals of providing effective and self-reliant citizens,the revised National Policy on Education introduced 34 new entrepreneur/vocational subjects from which every student is mandated to pick one subject with the hope that she/he may practically apply as sustainable trade for self-reliance and possible personal economic prosperity.The educational administrators and managers at school level are further mandated to ensure a successful implementation of the curriculum.This study evaluates the curriculum 2007 using a census survey approach.Specifically,the most offered trade/entrepreneurship subjects were identified using a validated researcher made inventory and the questions of whether the subjects are relevant to the students’aspirations,the level of practical application of the trade learnt,and the level of quality of teachers handing the vocational subjects were examined through the administration of the instrument to 4,900 senior secondary school graduates,1,400 teachers,and 350 principals and directors in North-Western Nigeria.The study found four most prevalent subjects offered to be animal husbandry and fisheries,and it was also found that 71%of the teachers teaching the vocational subjects are not qualified to teach the subjects and the 71%of the students are not willing to practice the vocation learnt as trade.Among other things,complete revisiting of the curriculum 2007 was recommended where the subjects will be reduced from 34 to 10 through merger of many related subjects,and subjects like fisheries and animal husbandry should be merged with agriculture and the subject made compulsory.
