Emerging Techniques for Enhancing Skills Acquisition Among Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Students of Technical Colleges throughSchool-IndustryPartnership in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the Emerging Techniques fornhancing Skills Acquisition Among Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work (EIMW) Students of Technical Colleges Through School–Industry Partnership in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Two research questions with two corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a mixed-method research design specifically sequential exploratory. The targeted population of thisas 1,686. 10 respondentsere purposively selected and utilised for qualitative data collection, while the sample size of 313 determined using Krejcie and Morgan’s (1970) table was used for quantitative data collection. Interview prompts was utilised for qualitative data collection, while structured questionnaire title: Emerging Techniques for School-Industry Partnership Questionnaire (ETSIPQ) was used for quantitative data collection. The instruments were validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach’s Alpha statistics and yielded overall reliability coefficient of 0.80, which was consider acceptable by the researcher for this study. The qualitative data was carried out through thematic analysis while quantitative data collected for research questions were analysed using mean and standard deviation. The null hypotheses were tested using Z-test and ANOVA at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that: 9 items ( ₌ 4.10) were found to be the technical college-based techniques, 9 items ( ₌4.20) were found to be the communication techniqueshat could enhance school-industry partnership towards skills acquisition among EIMW students in Kaduna state, Nigeria. The study further revealed that there was no significant difference (significant value ≥0.05) among the mean responses of the respondents. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that: Government should enact a specific policy framework for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in TVET to fund and manage modern EIMW training centres equipped with industry-standard tools. This could strengthen school-industry partnership towards enhancing skills acquisition among EIMW students for self-reliant, in Kaduna state and beyond.