Similarly, Archibong, Oshiomu &
Bassey (2010) investigated the quality of education the delivery:
trainers’ perspectives in universities of Calabar and Uyo, Nigeria. The
study adopted survey research design which sought lecturers’
perspectives on the adequacy of graduate the preparation for employment.
The study sample comprised 192 lecturers in 6 sampled faculties in
universities of Calabar and Uyo. One research question was raised to
guide the study. A 20-item questionnaire with an alpha coefficient of
0.84, which sought information on 4 indices of quality of programmes for
graduate preparation for employment was utilised for data collection.
Analysis of the data using simple percentage revealed among others that
53.7% of the respondents strongly agreed that the curricula of study
operated in their departments were adequate to prepare graduates for
employment while 63.5% of them disagreed that ICT facilities were
available for staff and students. Recommendations made included periodic
review of the curriculum with a view of upgrading it to reflect the
realities of the world of work and that academic department should keep
good feedback records of ex-students in order to keep abreast with
changing needs of the labour market.
Arikpo, Oden, Duramaku-Dim
& Eloma (2009) carried out a study on determinants of the
employability of tertiary institution graduates in South-South Nigeria.
The study examined the forms of common entrepreneurial practices,
curriculum outcomes, personality traits as well as gender
roles-stereotypes and their relation to unemployment and self-labour
market performances of tertiary institution graduates in South-South
Nigeria. The study sampled 361 graduates from Universities, Colleges of
Agriculture, Polytechnics, Theological Seminaries and Colleges of
Education in the study area. The research instruments were the Graduate
Self-Labour Market Performance Questionnaire (GSLMP), Personality Job
Creation Behaviour Inventory (PJCBI), Gender Role stereotype Job
Creation Behaviour Inventory (GRJBI), C-O JOB Work Behaviour Inventory
(COJBI) and Common Entrepreneurial Practice Attitude Scale (CEPAS). Four
research questions were raised for the study, questions on the pattern
of labour market performance engagement for tertiary institution
graduates in South-South Nigeria, the composite effect of each form of
curriculum outcome, personality trait, common entrepreneurial practices
and gender roles-stereotype on self-labour market performance of
tertiary institution graduates in South-South Nigeria, the relative
effect of each form of the four independent variables on self-labour
market performance which form of four independent variables were used to
predict the self-labour market performance of the graduates. Data
analysis was done using percentages, frequencies and multiple
regressions. The study found that proportionately different labour
market performance engagements existed among tertiary institutions
graduates, more graduates were engaged in government than private sector
and self-sector employments and retrogressively, common entrepreneurial
practices, introvert personality trait, cognitive curriculum outcomes,
extrovert personality trait, affective curriculum outcomes, experience,
masculine gender role stereotype, psychomotor curriculum outcomes and
feminine gender role stereotype contributed to self-labour market
performance of the graduates. The study concluded that all the
aforementioned variables determine the employability of tertiary
institutions graduates in South-South Nigeria.
