期刊名称：Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies
电子版ISSN：2141-6990
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：4
出版社：Scholarlink Resource Centre
摘要：This purpose of this paper is to examine the role of technical and vocational education in the reduction of poverty among youths in Nigeria after university education. The problem of this study is to ascertain the potency of Nigeria higher education for poverty reduction among youths in Nigeria. The area of study comprises of the eighteen local government areas of Edo State. Descriptive survey design was employed for the study with a population of 150 students. Three research questions were formulated and analyzed using arithmetic mean method. The finding of this study revealed that technical and vocational education can play a vital role in reducing poverty as well as equipping, building and making our youths self-employed, reliable and employable in an industry or company after university education. However, the paper recommends that one of the ways by which government should reduce poverty and generate employment is to focus on a functional, technical and vocational education and that graduates of the programmes should be encouraged with soft loans/micro credit for a start.
