Assessment of National Board for Technical Education on Skill Acquisition among Technical School Leavers in Osun State

The study examined the contributions of National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) programmes towards enhancing acquisition of skills among youth in Osun State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population for this study comprised 12 technical schools across the three Federal Constituencies in Osun State. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to group the schools. From each senatorial district, one Local Government Area (LGA) with Technical College was purposively selected. In each LGA, one Technical College was selected using simple random sampling technique. In each school, total enumeration sampling technique was used to select all top management in the chosen school to make a total of 15 top management team members. Also 150 stakeholders in Technical schools were selected using convenience sampling technique at 50 participants per senatorial district. Two self-designed research instruments titled: ‘’Technical Education and Skill Acquisition Questionnaire (TESA-Q) and Stakeholders’ Perception Questionnaire (SP-Q)†. Mean and standard deviation of descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. Findings from the study revealed that NBTE had contributed towards enhancing acquisition of skills among school leavers in Osun State through the introduction, implementation and evaluation of relevant policies in technical education schools.