FACULTY OF EDUCATION
Permanent URI for this communityhttps://repository.ui.edu.ng/handle/123456789/264
Browse
3 results
Search Results
Item Social and communications skills acquisition: panacea to economic safety among unemployable graduates in Nigeria(2017-11) Isuku, E. J.The economy of Nigeria is plagued with an alarming rate of unemployment. Stakeholders are of the view that graduates are not employable due to lack of or insufficient relevant skills Yet, there is a constant increase in the number of higher institutions of learning who produce graduates annually with the view that education guarantee employment. This proposes the appraisal of graduates from these higher education institutions of learning in Nigeria. This study, therefore, examined social and communication skills as determinants of graduate’s employability in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo state. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The research was carried out in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo state. Purposive sampling technique was used to select six local governments in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo state. A total of 200 employers of labour were selected for the study. The results revealed employers required the employability skills (social and communication skills) (t = -10.42; df 398; p < 0.05) and (t= -5.821; df 398; p < 0.05) respectively, from graduates at high rate both private and public organizations, nevertheless graduates displayed high level of communications and social skills in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo state. It was recommended that stakeholders should be aware of the perseverance far the creations of more job opportunities for graduates in order to tackle the problem of increasing unemployment in NigeriaItem Knowledge, education and employability of Nigerian graduates(Philosophy of education association of Nigeria, 2016-10) Omoregie, C. O.This paper accentuates the fact and reality that there are many qualified graduates in Nigeria without jobs. Although governments, institutions of learning and organisations are responding to this social problem in myriad of ways, there is need to ask why the proposed solutions seem not to be producing the expected results. An argument that this position holds is that human capacity building has enormous power to solve the problem of unemployment when individual talents are allowed to be expressed rather than put prospective workers on the guise that some courses are more professional and profitable than others. The non-formal education possibilities, therefore, portend a more realistic solution to the problem of unemployment by collective appreciation of human being for who they are rather than make them serve as materials and machine for consumption onlyItem Employability of adult education postgraduate students in university of Ibadan, Nigeria: opportunities and threats(Department of Adult Education University of Ibadan, 2016-08) Omoregie, C. O.; Ojo, F. E.There is a growing interest in employability among postgraduate students in University of Ibadan. The study aimed at the opportunities that are available for postgraduate students of the department of adult education. It found out that postgraduate students lack requisite skills in setting career goal for themselves and consequently suffer from lack of focus despite the efforts of the University