Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the skills required by graduates of technical colleges for self-employment in electrical installation and maintenance works in Enugu State. A survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study was 35 respondents comprised of teachers of electrical installation and maintenance work and workshop attendants. There was no sampling because of the manageable size of the population. A Structured questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument and a 0.82 reliability coefficient value was obtained. Four research questions and four null hypotheses were formulated for the study. Mean was used to analyze the data for answering research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses of no significant difference at 0.05 level of significance. The study found that 25 skills in domestic installation, 32 skills in industrial installation, 23 skills in cable jointing and 25 skills in winding of electrical machines required by graduates of technical colleges for self employment in Enugu State. There was no significant difference between the mean responses of electrical installation teachers and workshop assistants on the skills required by graduates of technical colleges for self-employment in domestic installation, industrial installation, cable jointing and winding of electrical machines. The study recommended that the skills identified in this study should be packaged and used to retrain the graduates of electrical installation and maintenance work at skills acquisition centres. It was also recommended that teachers of electrical installation and maintenance work in technical colleges should be retrained by government on the implementation of the skills identified for self employment in domestic, industrial, cable joint and winding of electrical machines.