balancing the hours of theory with that of the practical in technical colleges in northern Nigeria has become a food for thought .technical schools produce half bake products which cannot help the society and the country to grow at large .

1. STRATEGIES FOR BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN
THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SKILLS ACQUISITION OF
ELECTRICAL STUDENTS IN YOBE STATE TECHNICAL
COLLEGES
BY
ABDULLAHI U.ZAKARIYA,MUSA A. JATTO, M.BUTU, B.USMAN
DEPARTMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC DAMATURU
2023

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
• RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• GAP THAT EXIST BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE
• METHODOLOGY
• CONCLUSION
• RECOMMENDATION

3. INTRODUCTION
• Nigerian education has become a food for thought for all well-
meaning individual both at home and Diaspora.
• It has several times been argued that Nigerian education system is at
the cross-road, and at the verge of being collapsed.
• The claims of these oral authors and critiques are that, things have
been lopsided in this industry.
• Nigeria being a developing country demands technological
advancement and greater economic well-being of her citizens.
• Fundamentally, this practice has become catalyst for change and the
major indices for the appraisal of a country’s self-reliance, economic
development and supply of trained and skill technical manpower in
order to be part of the present more towards globalization.

4. Statement of the Problem
• The main focus of the study is to device the proper means
of balancing the hours of theory conducted with the hours
of practical.
• Despite the poor result been witness, still parent send
their children to the various technical collages in Yobe
state.
• Insufficient teachers in the technical colleges.
• Lack of qualified teachers to handle practical lesson.
• Lack of workshop facilities
• Lack of seminars and in-service training due to financial .

5. Research Questions
 Are there available workshops and workshop facilities and
equipment in the technical colleges?
 What is the extent of student’s involvement in the utilization of
electrical workshop facilities and equipment in the technical
colleges?
 What is the efficiency of electrical workshop facilities and
equipment for conducting practical lesson in the technical
colleges?
 Do the technical colleges have enough qualified electrical
teachers to handle both theory and practical lesson?
 Do the workshops contain relevant materials for conducting
practical lesson in the technical colleges?

6. The Gap that Exist Between Theory and Practical
• Every society give quality training to its citizens in order to be a
responsible and progressive member.
• Technical skills play critical role to help develop, renew our citizenry and
help them acquired knowledge, value, attitudes and skills that will
contribute to fulfilling national purpose and individual interest and goals.
• Technical education is meant to produce trained manpower, to provide
technical skills that will enhance the nation’s economic development and
impart necessary skills to beneficiaries for self-reliance that will lead to
economic empowerment
• Factors that hinder such achievement includes: insufficient acquisition of
practical skills, inadequate entrepreneurship education, apathy technical
education and absence of career guidance .

7. METHODOLOGY
• The research design was a descriptive survey. The area of
the study is Yobe State.
• The population of the study consists of all the eight (8)
technical collages in Yobe state and all the NTC II students
of the colleges.
• Six (6) technical collages were selected from the population
using stratified random sampling technique.
• Two (2) instruments was used for data collection, this are
checklist and structured questionnaire.
• Data collected for the research questionnaires were analyzed
using mean and standard deviation.

8. Conclusion
• It was concluded that the technical colleges
lack facilities and equipment in the
workshops,
• Lack of workshop buildings,
• Improper utilization of the available tools,
• Insufficient power supply
• Students ratio in the class during practical
exercise.

9. Recommendations
• Government should intensify their effort in constructing more classrooms and
workshops to accommodate the expected increase in yearly enrolment.
• Government should provide sufficient and appropriate electrical facilities and
equipment in to the technical colleges.
• Teachers should be motivated through cash and kind.
• Upgrading and updating their knowledge, seminars, workshops and in-service
training.
• Sufficient power supply and alternate source of energy should be provided.
• Parents, communities, organized private sectors, international agencies;
should collaborate and assist government by involving themselves in the
provision of technical skills. This is because government alone cannot and will
not be able to provide qualitative skills acquisition by itself.