Abstract
The study investigated the rise in the rate of unemployment among Electrical Technology graduates from Colleges of Education in Nigeria despite the huge government investment in power and education sectors. The study is a qualitative study which involve a survey of literature and interview protocol. This study is designed to determine the employability skills needed by electrical technology students in Colleges of Education qualitatively with the aimed of suggesting a departure from the general framework available to all disciplines. A review of journal articles and policy documents on Employability skills and Electrical Technology was conducted, leading to the interview data that was conducted among 6 employers of labour and 4 Senior Academic staff in the four Colleges of Education that have Electrical Technology programme in South Western Nigeria. The study revealed that there is a skill mismatch between Colleges of Education in Nigeria and the labour market. Thus, the students lack the skills for 21st-Century jobs. The two results were integrated to come up with a Framework of employability for Electrical Technology students in Colleges of Education in Nigeria. The study observed that the framework developed was still broad and therefore recommends a valid discipline-difference employability skill framework using Rasch Analysis Model to determine the competencies and its hierarchy.
Highlights
The Federal government of Nigeria in her bid to ensure that more jobs are created and expanded for the youths has been investing heavily in the power sector of the economy
The findings show that most of the journal articles spoke in favour of non-technical skills while the major emphasis of the policy documents like the National Policy on education, and the National Commission for Colleges of Education was on the hard skills (Technical skills)
Majority of the interview participants stressed the importance of soft skills for Electrical Technology students
Summary
The Federal government of Nigeria in her bid to ensure that more jobs are created and expanded for the youths has been investing heavily in the power sector of the economy. The data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2017) indicates that the power generation output in Nigeria attained 7,000 megawatts of electricity for the first time in decades. This was due to the unbundling of the power sector to give room for efficiency and expansion. The stability in the power sector has a multiplying effect It grows the level of foreign direct investment in the economy. This translate to more jobs opportunities for graduates. The Federal government through the Minister of Culture and Information announced the creation of 7million jobs in the last three years (Lai, 2018)
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