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Labour Market Demand And University Graduate Employability Skills
[A CASE STUDY OF NORTH-WEST NIGERIA] -
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The target population of the study comprises top management staff in educational institutions, banking sector, commerce and manufacturing industries as well as science and technology industries with the total number of 1,216. The sampling scope of the study is selected by using the Research Advisor (2006) at 95% confidence level of 5.0% margin of error to determine the sample size of 306. However, the sample for the study would be 318 top management staff (which 16 top management staff from SUBEB and 20 from TESCOM, 20 directors and 20 supervisors from the States ministry of education, 27 registrars from the 27 tertiary institutions in the selected states, 84 bank management staff across all the selected banks in the selected states, 64 top management staff from commerce and industry and 64 from different organizations in science and technology industry). The selection of these management staff is based on the reason that, as operational managers, university graduates work directly under them also these management staffs are charged with the responsibility of evaluating and assessing the university graduates under them.
The instrument for the study would be a researcher-designed questionnaire titled “Labour Market Demand and University Graduate Employability Skills Questionnaire. This would comprise two sections “A and Bâ€. Section “A†would comprise personal information of respondents such as the name of an organisation, type of organisation, location and position held. Section “B†would consist of thirty (30) items drawn from the research questions raised for the study.
Operational Definition of Terms
The following terms are operationally defined in the study;
Labour Market Demand: refers to factors considered by employers of labour for university graduate employability. These are academic qualifications, areas of specialisations, work-related experience and age.
Employability Skills: are soft skills which are not specific to a particular discipline but to all complex endeavours0. These are communication, basic computer, analytical, entrepreneurial and interpersonal skills.
University Graduates: are those who passed through the university system and certificated as being competent in a particular field of study at first-degree level.
Academic Qualifications: refer to the class of degree obtained by university graduates for employability. These are 1st class, 2nd class upper, 2nd class lower, 3rd class and pass.
Areas of Specialisations: refers to Arts, Education, Social Sciences and Science and Technology.
Experience: refers to relevant years of work considered for university graduates before entering the labour market.
Age Demand: refers to the age group of university graduates considered for recruitment by employers of labour at the point of entering the labour market.
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APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]APPENDIX 1Sample Size Table*From The Research Advisors ... Continue reading---
QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ] ... Continue reading---
LIST OF FIGURES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF FIGURESFigure 1: Conceptual Model of Labour Market Demand and University Graduate Employability Skills ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSContents Title Page Table of Contents List of Figures CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Statement of the Problem Purpose of the Study Research Questions Research Hypotheses Significance of the Study Scope of the Study Operational Definition of Terms CHAPTER TWO REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE University Education and Its Mandate Theoretical Framework Concept of Labour Market Demand Sources of Labour Demand in Nigeria Concept of Graduate Employability Employabil ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 15 ]General Households Survey (GHS) The objective of the GHS conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) is to collect data on social and economic characteristics of the population for monitoring the effects of Government policies and programmes. In a section to be filled in respect of each person who is fifteen years and above, the following information are solicited, main job during previous week (9 options), reason for doing nothing during previous week (8 options), p ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Purposive sampling technique was used to select three management staff from the seven selected banks (these are bank managers, heads of operation and marketing). Purposive sampling technique was used to select four heads of departments in commerce and industry (these are heads of administration, human resource, production and marketing). This sampling technique was also used to select four heads of departments in commerce and industry (these are heads of administration, human resource, productio ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]REFERENCESAbiodun, S. O. (2010). Analysis of mismatch between demand and supply of skills and university graduate unemployment in Nigeria. Unpublished M.Ed Dissertation, Lagos State University.Adamu, I & Dangado, K. I. (2013). Assessment of views of business education graduates on the effect of technological advancement on their employability in Nigeria labour market. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Developm ... Continue reading---
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