Cooperative is seen as the joining efforts by a group of people with liked-minds to help each other out of a helpless situation with the aim of improving their conditions of living and for socioeconomic improvement. One of the principles governing the operators of cooperatives has to do with cooperative education, to help in the achievement and sustenance of such cooperatives. This study was therefore carried out to investigate the role of cooperative education in the economic development of members in Calabar Metropolis. Four null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Literature was reviewed based on the variables used for the study. The population of the study was 329 while a sample of 150 was drawn and used for the study. The questionnaire was the main instrument used for the study. Analysis was done using the one-way analysis of variance. The result of the analysis reveals that cooperative education influence co-operators in terms of the living standard of the cooperators, their businesses, employment opportunities and awareness on loan schemes. It was recommended that more societies should intensify their cooperative education activities.
Two distance education programmes prominently exist in Nigeria. These are the Nigerian Certificate of Education (NCE) distance learning programme and the Open University distance education models. Ample evidence abounds to show that numerous Nigerians have not maximally taken advantage of these programmes to acquire requisite knowledge and skills in order to fit into the world of work and/or to improve their productivity. A plethora of factors underlie these unsavory situations. This paper highlights the inherent needs to the participation of Nigerians into these distance learning programmes and also suggests different strategies for widening or enhancing the access of more Nigerians to these new paradigms of accessing education.
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