Infrastructural Facilities and the Practice of Vocational Business Education in Nigeria

Abstract

Nigeria education system gives little or no attention to technology and vocational business education, an aspect of vocational and technical education (VTE) which was designed to prepare individual learner to earn a living and to be self reliant. The success of this aspect of educational policy is determined by its implementation which has been hindered by a lot of problems. This paper therefore examines the availability and utilization of infrastructural facilities in the implementation of vocational business education policy. Descriptive survey deign was used for the study. A sample of fifty lecturers was selected across the departments of Technical and Business in the College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti. A questionnaire tagged Infrastructural Facilities and Implementation of Business Education Questionnaire (IFIBEQ) was adopted. The findings revealed that, across the department there are not enough facilities, where available, they are not recent and many of the lecturers are not ICT compliant enough to handle the equipment. Based on the finding the researcher recommend among others, that the state government through the board for technical education, ministry of education and other government agencies should assist the colleges by making modern equipment available and organize training/workshps and seminars to globalize the lecturers by making them ICT compliant.