This study investigated the underlying factors that influences pre-service Nigerian (technical vocational education and training, TVET) teachers’ decision to pursue a teaching career which aids in recruiting more teachers. Preservice TVET teachers are the teachers who are being prepared to teach in a vocation requiring technical skills. The motivation of these pre-service TVET teachers obtaining a postgraduate diploma in technical education was investigated using the quantitative research design approach to collect data via a researcher-created, self-administered questionnaire. Participants were selected from two cohorts (N = 78) of students enrolled in the various departments for the Postgraduate Diploma in Technical Education (PGDTE) program of the University of Nigeria. According to the quantitative analysis, excellent role models from previous teachers, the demanding nature of the job role, a willingness to impart relevant knowledge and skills, a willingness to assist financially disadvantaged students in gaining marketable job skills, and the country’s presumed demand for TVET teachers were the primary motivators for pre-service teachers. However, the gender aspect revealed that male and female pre-service TVET teachers showed significant differences in their altruistic and intrinsic impulses when the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U tests were utilized to analyze extracted data on gender. The ramifications of the findings were then examined, as well as their significance in enhancing hiring measures through setting of standards for technical and vocational education programs in the universities to improve on the status of pre-service TVET teachers to attract quality graduates of technical education programs who can teach as TVET teachers before and after completing their programs.
The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening the economic, educational, religious, social and wealth being of people globally. This is as a result of lockdown imposed by government of various nations to cope the spread of the virus. This study focused on investigating activities that sustained people during the lockdown. A mixed method design was adopted for the study. The sample of the study was made up of 310 participants. An online questionnaire with a reliability of 0.903 was used for data collection. The result of the study revealed the frequently used ICTs during the lockdown , the activities which sustain people during lockdown, the economic and social implication of use of ICT during the COVID-19 lockdown. The identified challenges to utilization of ICT during lockdown include: lack of adequate infrastructure for E-learning, inconsistent power supply, inadequate cash to buy data, and limited/unsteady internet access. It was therefore recommended that government should implement policies that will enhance quality of data network and also reduce the cost of mobile data subscription and other forms of subscriptions.
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