COMPARING STUDENTS' ENROLMENT AND GRADUATE OUTPUT IN HOME ECONOMICS WITH OTHER VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA.
The purpose of this study was to compare students' enrolment and graduate output in Home Economics with other Vocational subjects in the Colleges of Education in Nigeria. The target population included twenty (20) Federal Colleges and twenty-seven (27) State Colleges of Education offering eight Voca...
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=43969270&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 43969270 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01463934 CGL jtl: College Student Journal issn: 01463934 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2009 vid: 43 iid: 3 pid: 72156 pub: Project Innovation Austin LLC artinfo: ui: 43969270 ppf: 707 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: T tig: atl: COMPARING STUDENTS' ENROLMENT AND GRADUATE OUTPUT IN HOME ECONOMICS WITH OTHER VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA. aug: au: Arubayt, D. O. affil: Vocational Education Department, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria su: Home economics Consumer science Vocational education Career education Occupational training College curriculum Agricultural education Education research Educational surveys Nigeria sug: subj: Nigeria Home economics Consumer science Vocational education Career education Occupational training College curriculum Agricultural education Education research Educational surveys ab: The purpose of this study was to compare students' enrolment and graduate output in Home Economics with other Vocational subjects in the Colleges of Education in Nigeria. The target population included twenty (20) Federal Colleges and twenty-seven (27) State Colleges of Education offering eight Vocational and Technical disciplines during the 2001/2002, 2002/2003 academic sessions. Two research questions were formulated. The design of this study was ex-post-facto and descriptive in nature. The instrument used was the data got from the digest of statistics on Colleges of Education in Nigeria for 2001/2002,2002/2003. The data was analysed using means, frequencies and percentages. Findings revealed an increase in students' enrolment from 39426 to 43168 in the eight Vocational/Technical subjects for the years under review. 55.9% (24115) of the students were females. Findings also revealed that Business Education, Agricultural education and Home Economics ranked first, second and third respectively. Woodwork ranked last, with Metal Work, Electrical Electronic, Secretarial Studies and Technical Education in that order. Findings also revealed an increase of 1710 (14%) NCE graduates in the period under investigation. Finding revealed a 96% female graduate output in Home Economics in the two years under review, followed by 76% for Secretarial Studies. The last was Metal Work with an average graduate output of 09%. Following these findings some recommendations were made. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of College Student Journal is the property of Project Innovation Austin LLC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: College Student Journal holder: Project Innovation Austin LLC dt: @attributes: year: 2009 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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