Training Activities and Facilities as a Solution to Gender Gap in Technical Education in North Eastern States of Nigeria

Abstract

The study was carried out to analyse training activities and facilities as strategies for bridging the gender gap in technical education in north eastern states of Nigeria. A survey research design was used. The population for the study comprised 75 technical lecturers and 50 instructors in colleges of education in North eastern states. The instruments used for data collection was structured   questionnaire   . Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated.  Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze   the data   for answering research questions while t- test analysis was used to test the hypotheses of no significant difference at 0.05level of significance. It was found out that: eleven out of fourteen training activities influence gender imbalance in technical education and all twenty training facilities can enhance female students’ enrolment/participation into technical education in North Eastern States of Nigeria. Based on these findings, it was recommended that scholarship should be given to female students studying technical education courses by the governments and philanthropist in the society .It was also recommended that modern training facilities should be donated to technical   institutions by the government and employers of the products of technical education.

Keywords: Enrolment, Gender gap, North Eastern Nigeria, Technical education, Training facilities