Revamping Nigerian Education for Skills Acquisition and Sustainable Youth's Empowerment and Development in Owerri Education Zone I of Imo State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study is aimed at determining the influence of revamping Nigeria Education for skills acquisition and sustainable youth’s empowerment and development in Owerri Education Zone I of Imo State Nigeria. Two research questions and hypotheses guided this study. The study is a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised the entire senior secondary school students of 30,906 students made up of males and females in the 68 secondary schools in Owerri Zone I of Imo State. The sample size was 600 students from 20 public senior secondary schools in Owerri zone I. The selection of the respondents was made by simple random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire containing sixteen (16) items made by the researcher and face validation of the items of the instrument was made by both experts in the measurement and evaluation and experts in the faculty of education in Imo State University. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation, while hypotheses were tested using independent t-test analysis at 0.05 level of significance. Results indicated that a sufficient influence was made on ICT, Technical and Vocational Skills Acquisition on youth’s empowerment and development. Based on this, the researcher recommends that the curriculum should be revisited and reactivated by the government to accommodate curricular, extra-curricular activities and skills acquisition programs for youth’s empowerment and development in Owerri zone 1 of Imo State Nigeria. Again, the Government should make available computer facilities and security measures to secure them, there must be the Provision of electricity because ICT cannot work without light, Continuous in-service training of teachers by training personnel. Budgetary provisions should also be made by the government, including supporting the youth who have already finished their programs to set-up their projects.