PERCEPTIONS OF OTM EDUCATORS AND NON-OTM EDUCATORS TOWARDS QUALITY ASSURANCE IN OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES IN POLYTECHNICS IN DELTA AND EDO STATES
Abstract
This study investigated Office Technology and Management educators and non-OTM educators towards quality assurance in Office Technology and Management
programmes of Polytechnics in Delta and Edo States. The design of the study was descriptive survey. Two hypotheses were formulated for the study. An instrument which consisted of ten questionnaire items was distributed to 120 respondents drawn from the Polytechnics located in Delta and Edo States. In analyzing the data obtained from the field, the researcher made use of Analysis of Variance. The findings of the study revealed, among others, that since the emergence of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) as a federal education parastatal in January 1977, quality assurance in terms of contexts, inputs, processes and products (CIPP) of Polytechnic Education in Nigeria has improved significantly and tremendously; that the OTM educators and non-OTM educators accepted that quality assurance in OTM meant the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies needed to prepare the graduates to enter gainful employment in specific business and office occupations; that the reasons for NBTE setting minimum academic standards for OTM programmes are to ensure that no institutions operate below the minimum academic standards prescribed; and that graduates of Nigerian polytechnics are adequately and sufficiently prepared for the world of work, to be productive and be able to create wealth for themselves as part of their entrepreneurial initiatives. On the
strength of the results of the study, the researcher recommended that NBTE should reduce its visitation exercises to polytechnics under its aegis from five to three years in order to ensure that the minimum academic standards prescribed are not outrightly compromised by governments and institutional administrators, and also to guarantee that the ND and HND OTM graduates of polytechnics in Nigeria continue to be proficient and productive in their work places.
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