Students’ attitude towards self-employment in electronics occupational areas in Niger and Benue States, Nigeria.

Abstract

This study investigated students' attitude towards self-employment in electronics occupational areas^ Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The study was conducted in 12 technical colleges in Niger and Benue States. A survey research design was employed to collect data for the study. Simple Random Sampling technique was employed to sampled 84 respondents for the study which consists of sixty (60) electrical/electronic students and twentyfour (24) electrical/electronic teachers. A thirty four (34) items questionnaire was used to collect data. Data Collected was analyzed using mean and t-test. Findings revealed that students' did not show positive attitude toward self-employment in electronics occupation as they do not in the first instance think of self-employment in electronics even at graduation while some believe it is for those who want to sell their skills. It was also revealed that Self- employment is inhibited by students' poor performance, lack of motivation, Cultural believe, lack ot qualify teacher to impart the needed skill for self-employment among others. Furthermore, findings indicated among others that recruitment of qualified teacher, creating awareness through public enlightenment on the relevance of self-employment, and empowering the students with relevant job skills as it relates to the electronics industries are ways of improving students' attitude toward self-employment in electronics occupational areas. It was recommended among others that students should be encouraged to seek for self-employment skills through public awareness and provision of adequate training equipment and that the government/recruitment agencies should employ capable hand with skills capable of self-employment in electronics for recruitment.