Attitudinal Change towards Technical and Vocational System of Education The Way Forward to Educational Development

The research was conducted to ascertain level of awareness and attitude of parents, students and the public towards technical and vocational system of education. A sample of 400 students from various secondary schools, 400 parents in the community and 400 private public employees completed a questionnaire that was designed to validate the study. Percentage scores were used to answer the research questions. Results show that students, parents have negative attitude towards acquiring skills knowledge from technical schools such as Mono Polytechnics and National Certificate Education NCE . Only 0.4, 7.1 of the students preferred acquiring awards from mono polytechnics 2.5, 9 parents preferred their wards to acquire knowledge from technical colleges and polytechnics while over 25 of students and parents preferred the university education. On the basis of these findings, it was recommended among others, that Government should provide workable and consistent self value link chain between each technical and university institutions to collectively promote indigenous innovation. Abdullahi S. Mohammed | Ibeh S. Chukwuemeka | Attahiru Illiyasu "Attitudinal Change towards Technical and Vocational System of Education: The Way Forward to Educational Development" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-6 , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33618.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/33618/attitudinal-change-towards-technical-and-vocational-system-of-education-the-way-forward-to-educational-development/abdullahi-s-mohammed