Relevance of Technical Education on Job Creation Among Graduates in Makurdi Local Government Area, Benue State, Nigeria

Henda Cordelia Hembadoon, Agia Philip Aondoakura, Ihongu Moses Terngu

The purpose of the study was to find out relevance of technical education on job creation among graduates and awareness of the employment opportunities that are of course enshrined in technical education in Makurdi Local Government of Benue State. The study adopted a survey research design in which 264 respondents were randomly sampled from a population of 2904 graduates in the study area. The questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents and analyses were made to get the statistical means of the items. The t-test was used to elicit more information on the significant difference between the means responses of graduates with technical education and non-technical education graduates on the importance of technical education for job creation and challenges faced by technical education graduates and non-technical education graduates on job creation. The results showed that technical education graduates had more job opportunities than non-technical education graduates in Makurdi Local Government area. Also, the results revealed that non technical education graduates were not aware of the employment opportunities that were of course enshrined in technical education.