Perception of stakeholders on Direct School-industry Partnership towards Provision of Electrical Electronics Practical Facilities in the Polytechnics of North-eastern Nigeria

Hassan Garba Ibrahim¹ , Ahmad Aliyu Deba² , Haruna Angulu³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.11 , Issue.3 , pp.1-12, Mar-2025

Online published on Mar 31, 2025

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Abstract :
The study investigated stakeholders` perceptions on direct school-industry partnerships in providing electrical and electronics practical facilities in the polytechnics of North-eastern Nigeria. It was guided by four specific objectives, research questions, and null hypotheses, using a descriptive survey research design. The study focused on 148 polytechnic stakeholders and 30 administrative staff from manufacturing industries in North-East Nigeria, with a total population sampling method. Data was collected using the School-Industry Partnership Questionnaire (SIPQ), which was validated by experts and found to have a high reliability score of 0.993 through Cronbach Alpha. The analysis used mean and standard deviation to answer research questions, while T-test was employed to test the null hypotheses at a 0.05 significance level, with data managed using SPSS version 23. Key findings revealed that direct school-industry partnerships could effectively provide school infrastructure, ICT, and consumable practical facilities, but not workshop practical facilities. Additionally, perceptions differed on the provision of workshop facilities, with significant agreement on infrastructure, ICT, and consumables. The study recommends that stakeholders in polytechnics and industries embrace direct school-industry partnerships to enhance the provision of relevant practical facilities for instruction. It concludes that such partnerships could be more effective than the existing modes of school-industry collaboration in polytechnics.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Perceptions, Stakeholders, Partnership, Practical Facilities, Infrastructure, Workshop, Electrical and Electronic

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