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The Role of Vocational and Technical Education in Promoting Economic

and Environmental Sustainability

Aliyu Mohammed Bisalla, TPL. D.U Abubakar & TPL. Emmanuel Aiyenajeh 1-15

Guidance and Counselling: A Concern for Effective Educational

Counselling in the 21^st Century Nigerian Schools

Ibrahim Bello, Abdulkadir Abdulkarim Olatunji &

Mohammed Mahmoud Baba                                                                          16-25

Nterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Firm’s Performance: Study of

 Selected Manufacturing Firms on Nigerian Stock Exchange

Adegbola Olubukola Otekunrin’; Tony, Ikechukwu Nwanji;

Adebanjo Joseph Falaye; Babatunde Taiwo Adesina;

Babatunde Taiwo Adesina; Frank Dayo Awonusi;

Eseosa David Obadiar; Samuel Abiodun Ajayi; &

 Damilola Felix Eluyela                                                                                   25-49

Government Policy of Carrying Capacity and Enrolment to University

Education in Nigeria: Basic Realities

Agbonlahor, Adenike Adetola                                                                         50-73

GOVERNMENT POLICY OF CARRYING CAPACITY AND ENROLMENT TO UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: BASIC REALITIES

Agbonlahor, Adenike Adetola

Federal College of Education,

Osiele Abeokuta Ogun State

Email:agbonlahoradenike@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Education is considered by many people as the panacea for national development. This explains the reasons many nations emphasize the need for educational policy in designing their plan for accelerated development. Thus, various programmes have been launched in Nigeria aimed at universalizing access and promoting equity in educational opportunity for the citizenry. Access to education is equally given a place in the National Policy in education. Furthermore, also enshrined in the Nigeria constitution is equity, as contained in section 18 of 1999. However, the demand for education especially at the university level has grown higher than supply, making the university system to outgrow the resources available to it to continue offering high quality education. In an effort to maintain quality and standard, the National Universities Commission (NUC) adopted the policy of carrying capacity. Unfortunately, this policy poses an impediment to access. Therefore, this paper examined the meaning of carrying capacity and having university education. The work under consideration also highlight the quest and availability of education at the tertiary level in Nigeria, matters carried in the policy that directs carrying capacity and its impediments vis-à-vis having university education in our country. Finally, the paper provides the way forward to enhance university carrying capacity and make having university education expensive. Suggestions include improved funding, facilities/infrastructure, dual mode universities, amongst others.

Keywords: Policy of carrying capacity, enrolment, demand and supply of university education, .

ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT (ERM) AND FIRM’S PERFORMANCE: STUDY OF SELECTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS ON NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE

Adegbola Olubukola Otekunrin’; Tony, Ikechukwu Nwanji; Adebanjo Joseph Falaye; Babatunde Taiwo Adesina; Babatunde Taiwo Adesina; Frank Dayo Awonusi; Eseosa David Obadiar; Samuel Abiodun Ajayi; & Damilola Felix Eluyela

Department of Accounting and Finance,

Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria:

Email: otekunrin.adegbola@lmu.edu.ng, nwanji.tony@lmu.edu.ng; falaye.adebanjo@lmu.edu.ng , Adesina.babatunde@lmu.edu.ng; awonusi.frank@lmu.edu.ng; obadiaru.eseosa@lmu.edu.ng;  ajayi.abiodun@lmu.edu.ng; eluyela.damilola@lmu.edu.ng

ABSTRACT

The contemporary business environment is embroiled with enterprise risks which can have a negative impact on an organizations existence and success. These risks represent the threats to the ability of an enterprise to execute business process and create customer value. This study was carried out to find out whether the management of these integrated risks through enterprise risk management (ERM) can lead to better firm’s performance in Nigerian manufacturing In line with extant researches in this area, the proxy used for performance of firms in this study is profitability and it is measured by firm’ return on equity ratio (Lo, 2003; Hossein & and Mahdi, 2009). Descriptive research design was adopted in this study. The secondary data used were taken from the annual reports of the selected manufacturing firms. Random sampling technique was used for selecting firms for this study. The study revealed that practice of ERM is positively and significantly related to firm’s performance proxied by profitability and measured by the level of return on equity (ROE). The study also revealed lliquidity level of a firm which is proxied by current ratio (CR) is positively and significantly related to the level of return on equity (ROE). Leverage level proxied by debt to total equity ratio of a firm is negatively and significantly related to the level of return on equity (ROE). Finally solvency level proxied by debt to total asset ratio of a firm is negatively and significantly related to the level of return on equity (ROE). It is recommended that the manufacturing sector should adopt ERM practice in order to enhance firm performance and by extension increases organization’s reputation.Keywords: Enterprise, Risk, Profitability, Leverage, Solvency

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING: A CONCERN FOR EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY NIGERIAN SCHOOLS

Ibrahim Bello¹, Abdulkadir Abdulkarim Olatunji² & Mohammed Mahmoud Baba³

¹Department of Education, Gombe State University, Gombe.

²Department of Educational Foundations, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

³Department of Educational Foundations, AbubakarTafawaBalewa University, Bauchi. E-mail: bellogundumaibrahim@gmail.com, Kisfak23@gmail.com,mmahmoudbaba@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Guidance and counselling in Nigeria is characterized by a number of problems which have brought untold hardship to the quality of counsellors and in turn, quality of educational counselling.  Some of the problems include dearth in quality counsellors, imbalance in students to counsellor ratio, government attitude towards the plight of counsellors, would be counsellors lack of access to quality practicum. This exposition therefore focuses attention on counsellor education and counsellor quality, as well as conclusion and suggestions to enhance quality of guidance and counselling

THE ROLE OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN PROMOTING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Aliyu Mohammed Bisalla, TPL. D.U Abubakar & TPL. Emmanuel Aiyenajeh

Department of Arts and Industrial Design, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa

Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa

E-mail: bisalla2003@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Vocational and Technical education is a vital component of education in development of practical and sellable/marketable skills for national economic empowerment and development in Nigeria. It is, therefore, a catalyst for diversifying Nigeria economy that is over depended on the oil sector of the economy for revenue acquisition. This paper started the discussion with detailed definitions and clarification of a few vital concepts. The paper also looked into the history of the development of vocational and technical education in Nigeria, it effect on the industrial revolution, socio-economic and political stability in Nigeria. It also clarifies the different skill acquisition through vocation and technical education in our tertiary institutions for manpower development. This paper also examines some certain factors responsible for the setback in vocational and technical education for sustainable growth and development. It also makes recommendations on how vocational and technical education can be given top priority in both formal and informal educational system for sustainable economic development

Keywords: Education, Diversification, Sustainability, Nigeria, Vocational, Skills