TOWARDS THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE CONTEMPORARY OFFICE: CHALLEGAES OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN SKILLS DEVELOPMENT IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION
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contemporary offices. The challenges of quality assurance in skill development in Colleges of Education in order to update themselves towards the changes and challenges posses by the constant review and revision of the secretarial education curriculum. The study was carried out in the three colleges of Education in Enugu State and one college in Ebonyi State. A survey research design was used for the study. The population for the study was 52 lectures from the colleges. The instrument was face validated by two experts
from the department of Business Education of Federal College of Education Eha Amufu. Two research questions were used for the study, and two hypotheses was tested 0.05. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to analyze the data for answering the research questions, while F- test was used to test the hypotheses of no significant difference at 0.05 level of significant and 3 and 48 degree of freedom. The results shows among other things that lack of enough equipment, lack of steady electric power supply, lack of adequate
laboratory and classroom, as well as lack of other ICT support tools as constituting a challenge. The null hypotheses were accepted. It was recommended that workshops be organized for the lecturers, enough and functioning equipments be procured.
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