Curriculum Restructuring and Job Creation Among Nigerian Graduates: The Mediating Role of Emerging Internet Applications

Owan, Valentine Joseph; Agurokpon, Daniel Clement; Udida, Joseph Udida

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“…Job creation potential is the capacity to identify economic opportunities, promote selfemployment as a career option, and foster creativity, risk-taking, and commitment (Magaji, 2019;Maina, 2013). Possessing such technical and business skills is necessary to launch a new enterprise (Brown, 2019;Owan, Agurokpon, et al, 2021;Verma et al, 2019). Recently, job creation has been defined as "the average quotient of the total number of Small and Medium Enterprises (NSMEs) owned by persons plus the total number of individuals employed (NIE) by such initiatives, as a per cent of the total number of persons studied" p.4).…”

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“…From the above, it implies that the job creation index of individuals is a function of the total number of jobs established and the number of employees engaged. This is because job creation is viewed from three critical perspectivesself-employment, business initiatives and unemployment reduction (Owan, Agurokpon, et al, 2021). However, with the emerging changes in work demands occasioned using Information and Communication Technology (ICT), it is not surprising that job creation can be highly affected by ICT usage.…”

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Latent Class Analysis of Postgraduate Students’ Behavioral Characteristics toward ICT Use: What Are Their Job Creation Differences?

Owan¹,

Akpan²,

Ekpenyong³

et al. 2022

The International Journal of Adult, Community and Professional

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This study analysed the behavioural characteristics of ICT users among postgraduate students leveraging the Latent Class Analysis (LCA). The study, anchored on the Planned Behaviour Theory, followed the exploratory research design. It adopted the cluster random sampling technique in selecting 1,023 respondents from a population of 2,923 postgraduate students in four federal universities in South-South Nigeria. "Behavioural Characteristics and Job Creation Questionnaire (BCJCQ)", developed by the researchers, was used for data collection. Upon data collection and LCA analysis, the five-class solution was accepted as the best fitting model, based on statistical fit indicators (such as AIC, BIC, entropy, Gsq, and Chsq) and theoretical grounds. Consequently, five classes of behavioural ICT users were identified and named based on their item-response probability, conditional on class. The five classes were named Trendy, Outmoded, Pragmatic, Disciplined and Social users of ICT, with their unique characteristics discussed. The study tested for job creation differences among the classes using a one-way ANOVA and found a significant difference. On average, pragmatic users of ICT created more jobs than social, disciplined, and outmoded users. Trendy users were, on average, the minor job-creating class of ICT users. The study compared the bivariate differences in job creation among the classes using the Tukey HSD test of multiple pairwise comparisons. Based on the results obtained, discussions were made with implications for further research in the evolving area of LCA.

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Latent Class Analysis of Postgraduate Students’ Behavioral Characteristics toward ICT Use: What Are Their Job Creation Differences?

Owan¹,

Akpan²,

Ekpenyong³

et al. 2022

The International Journal of Adult, Community and Professional

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“…It can be defined as the efforts made to carefully and systematically analyse existing school curricula, determine areas of strengths and weaknesses in meeting the current needs of society, and phase out aspects deemed obsolete for the introduction of contents that best reflect the needs of the community. The objective is to analyse the existing curriculum, discover efficient learning experiences, and then optimise them to eliminate those that do not offer meaningful value or contributions (Owan et al, 2021b). The integration of modern technology, correctly created learning materials, references, and media resources are part of the reengineering process of educational curriculum (Sprawls, 2021).…”

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“…However, considering the developments in technology, many other opportunities abound for both young and old to tap into the blessings, wealth and abundance of the Internet and other emerging technologies (Owan & Ekpenyong, 2022). Job creation chances have also increased with the emergence of new technologies and online content creation (Owan et al, 2021b).…”

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“…This could be due to the short duration of the training (Odigwe et al, 2018) or the quality of instruction offered to university students. This could explain why entrepreneurship training programmes have yielded little or no change in the business initiatives set up by graduates (Oseni, 2017), who still wallow in the streets searching for white-collar jobs (Owan et al, 2021b). As a result, Oseni argued that entrepreneurship education should be included in Nigeria's educational system to alleviate unemployment.…”

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Perspectives of Nigerian Graduates on Curriculum Reengineering, Acquisition of Emerging Technologies, and Job Creation: A Descriptive Study

Owan¹,

Chuktu²,

Mbon³

et al. 2022

JCT

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Curriculum reengineering, web-based technology acquisition, and job creation among Nigerian tertiary institution graduates were all examined in this research. The researchers used a descriptive survey design following the quantitative research approach. The study included all Nigerian graduates eligible for national service or its exemption who earned their diplomas or degrees between 2016 and 2021. The data was gathered via an online survey titled "Curriculum Re-engineering, Acquisition of Emerging Technologies, and Job Creation Questionnaire (CRAETJCQ). To assemble the data for this study, we used a snowball method. There were 4,874 replies countrywide after four months of data collection; however, only 4,628 responses satisfied the data analysis conditions after screening out irrelevant responses. Results indicated low curriculum reengineering in Nigerian postsecondary institutions. Nigerian graduates had a poor adoption of new web-based technologies but are increasingly using them for word processing, graphics, data science and data analysis. Nevertheless, only a few graduates employed emerging techs for other purposes (such as printing, YouTube video creation, course design and development, software development, digital marketing, online advertising, and consumer outreach). Although 58.30 per cent of graduates reported having not created any job, 41.70 per cent have done so between 2016 and 2021. Of the 1,930 graduates who owned at least one small or medium enterprise, 58.96% had no employees, whereas 41.04% had hired at least one employee between 2016 and 2021. The graduates' job creation index was estimated to be approximately 50% using a new formula. Based on these results, conclusions and recommendations were made.

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Students' Entrepreneurship Development Through Indigenous Palm Wine Production and Alcohol Distillation

Owan,

Ekpenyong,

Owan

et al. 2023

Advances in Information Quality and Management

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This chapter used a qualitative approach to investigate and describe the palm wine production and alcohol distillation practices of the indigenous people of the Yala-Obubra community in Cross River State, Nigeria. The chapter involved palm wine tappers and alcohol distillers (n = 10). A focus group discussion was held with the respondents, with audio recordings and notes for data collection. The study documented several practices in palm wine production and alcohol distillation and discovered declining palm tree population, climate change, high cost of production, lack of access to credit and social amenities, and stealing as some challenges faced in producing palm wine and distillation of alcohol. The chapter recorded some economic opportunities in the indigenous production of palm wine and distillation of alcohol, and discussed the relevance of these two traditional practices in promoting entrepreneurship among students. The implications of this study's findings were discussed for the promotion of sustainable production and preservation of these traditional practices in Nigeria.

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Curriculum Restructuring and Job Creation Among Nigerian Graduates: The Mediating Role of Emerging Internet Applications

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Latent Class Analysis of Postgraduate Students’ Behavioral Characteristics toward ICT Use: What Are Their Job Creation Differences?

Latent Class Analysis of Postgraduate Students’ Behavioral Characteristics toward ICT Use: What Are Their Job Creation Differences?

Perspectives of Nigerian Graduates on Curriculum Reengineering, Acquisition of Emerging Technologies, and Job Creation: A Descriptive Study

Students' Entrepreneurship Development Through Indigenous Palm Wine Production and Alcohol Distillation

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