Skill Enhancement: A Pathway to Sustainable Job Security for Technical College Graduates in Enugu State

This study was set to determine the strategies for enhancing skill among technical college students for sustainable job security in Enugu State. Two research questions guided the study in line with two hypotheses. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for the study comprised 74 respondents which were made up of 33 technical college administrators and 41 teachers sampled purposively from Enugu education zone. Data pertinent to the study were collected using a structured questionnaire developed by the researchers. The questionnaire was validated by three research experts and the reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach Alpha which gave a reliability
co-efficient result of 0.78. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while hypotheses were tested using t-test at .05 level of significance and appropriate degree of freedom. Some of the findings include that governments’ active participation in school affairs can enhance skill among technical college students for sustainable job security on graduation in Enugu. Also, the study showed that students can play a fair role in making skill more effective as they actively participate in classroom activities and so on. It was afterwards recommended among others that the government should be actively involved in the affairs of technical colleges to ensure provision of needed resources and effective
monitoring of project implementation.