Analyzing The Contemporary Issues In Management Of Polytechnic Education In Nigeria (A Case Study Of Abia State Polytechnic)
Chapter One
Preface
Background of the study
Polytechnic education, which is part of the specialized education programme at tertiary education position, leads to the accession of practical and applied chops as well as abecedarian scientific knowledge. This type of education was aimed originally at evolving an educational system grounded on work and training. Polytechnics educate unborn leaders and develop the middle- position specialized capacities that bolster profitable growth and development. Hence, the main purpose and applicability of polytechnic education in Nigeria is the provision of important demanded force to accelerate the socio- profitable development of the nation, making it an instrument of social change and profitable development.
numerous countries, including Nigeria, take education as an instrument for the creation of public development as well as for effecting desirable social change( NPE, 2004). This, maybe, might be responsible for the nonstop growing concern of all stakeholders in the education assiduity about changes that are likely to affect it as well as the counteraccusations similar changes will have on the operation and administration ofeducation.Indisputably, specialized education is crucial to the technological growth and development of any country. A polytechnic is a advanced education institution that was established to concentrate on education concerning applied technology. Polytechnic education in the twenty-first century is a career- concentrated usable education that spans trades through advanced degrees, delivered in an terrain where scholars admit hands- on training that enables them to apply their chops. principally, polytechnics are regarded as technological institutions that produce technological force for the technological advancement of a country. Polytechnic education emphasizes particular development in the areas of cooperation, leadership, communication, practical problem- working, critical thinking, and logical chops. This type of education is vital to the technological growth and development of any country( Ebele, 2014).
Regrettably, the polytechnics that were established to give specialized education in Nigeria have been neglected and relegated to the background over the times. therefore, despite having 123 polytechnics, Nigeria is still described as a technologically backward country, suggesting that specialized education has been greatly undermined. This raises the question as to whether polytechnics have outlasted their utility in Nigeria. From all suggestions, as far as polytechnic education is concerned, Nigeria has reached a crossroads, where a critical decision as to whether or not polytechnics are still demanded must be taken. It’s against this background that this paper examines the dilemma of polytechnic education in Nigeria.
Statement Of The Problem
Polytechnic education in Nigeria is in plod, as it’s filled with heads of colorful confines and magnitude. A number ofmulti-faceted problems have inhibited thing attainment and are raising questions, dubieties, and fears, all of which combine to suggest that the system is at a crossroads. The polytechnic sector in Nigeria is faced with a lot of challenges, which have averted the polytechnics from delivering on their accreditation of producing high quality specialized force needed for technological advancement and tone- reliance of the country. The challenges include under- backing, structure deficiency, under- staffing and the dispensable demarcation against polytechnics and their products by the Nigerian government and Nigerian society, among others. As critical as these challenges may feel, the abecedarian issues regarding the conceptualization of the polytechnic education system in Nigeria should be given immediate attention. thus, until these issues are addressed, Nigeria won’t get polytechnic education right. Hence, it’s against this background that this study seeks to examine the issues in the operation of polytechnic education in Nigeria.
Ideal Of The Study
The main focus of this study is to dissect the contemporary issues in the operation of polytechnic education in Nigeria. Specifically the study seeks
1 To examine if the primary notion of establishing polytechnic education system in Nigeria
2 To probe the challenges of operation of polytechnic education
3 To determine the extent of demarcation of polytechnic and their product
4 To suggest prospect of working the challenges of polytechnic education in Nigeria.
Exploration Question
1. What are the primary notion of establishing polytechnic education system in Nigeria?
2. What are the challenges of operation of polytechnic education?
3. What’s the extent of demarcation of polytechnic and their product?
4. What are the prospect of working the challenges of polytechnic education in Nigeria?
Significance of the study
Findings from the study will be of immense significance to stakeholders and operation of polytechnics as it’ll will help or enable them to know or identify the problems affecting the system hence know the applicable channels to seek requital in other to meliorate the situations. Also the experimenter will recommend precious results and the authority on the other hand will give suitable result to annihilate those problems stated. The study will also enlighten the government on the need to pay attention to polytechnic education in other to help them fufill the thing of specialized education. The study will contribute to the general body of Knowledge and serve as a reference material for pupil and other experimenters in conducting farther studies on affiliated field of study.
Compass Of The Study
The compass of this study borders on assaying the issues of operation of polytechnic education in Nigeria. still the study is delimted to Abia State Polytechnic, Aba.
Limitation of the study
The following factors poses to be a limitation during the course of this exploration
Fiscal Constraint – inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).
Time constraint – The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.
Replier station The maturity of repliers failed to collect the questionnaires, and those who do collect them pay close attention to filling out and returning them, while others don’t return theirs at all. Others were lower accommodating and may have handed untrustworthy information because they were hysterical of being exposed, despite the experimenter’s pledge that all information would be treated with the utmost secretiveness and only for education purposes.
Description Of Terms
Polytechnic A polytechnic is a tertiary institution that focuses onhands4one’perience and technoloy4related courses
Management Management is a process of planning, decision timber, organizing, leading, provocation and controlling the mortal coffers, fiscal, physical, and information coffers of an association to reach its pretensions efficiently and effectively.
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