The research was conducted to ascertain level of awareness and attitude of parents, students and the public towards technical and vocational system of education. A sample of 400 students from various secondary schools, 400 parents in the community and 400 private/public employees completed a questionnaire that was designed to validate the study. Percentage scores were used to answer the research questions. Results show that students, parents have negative attitude towards acquiring skills/knowledge from technical schools such as Mono-Polytechnics and National Certificate Education (NCE). Only 0.4, 7.1% of the students preferred acquiring awards from mono-polytechnics; 2.5, 9% parents preferred their wards to acquire knowledge from technical colleges and polytechnics while over 25% of students and parents preferred the university education. On the basis of these findings, it was recommended among others, that Government should provide workable and consistent self-value link chain between each technical and university institutions to collectively promote indigenous innovation.
Attitude, technical and vocational Education, attitudinal change, government
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