SOCIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF STUDENTS’ INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT SKILL ACQUISITION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SMALL-SCALE BUSINESSES IN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA. IMPLICATION FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

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The study focused on the assessment of the sociological impact of students’ industrial attachment skills acquisition on the establishment of small-scale businesses in Cross River State, Nigeria. Implication for Peace and Conflict Management. The study adopted the ex-post facto design. The target population of this study comprised 1,763 students who are into small-scale enterprises drawn from the ten (10) Local Government Areas in Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted stratified random sampling. The respondents were stratified based on gender (male and female) simple random sample was then used to select the respondent from the population. The sample of this study comprised 176 respondents drawn for the study. The instrument was a researcher’s developed instrument titled: The Sociological Impact of Students Industrial Attachment Skills Acquisition Questionnaire (SISIASAQ). To ensure the face validity of the instrument, the Assessment of Students Industrial Attachment Skills Acquisition and Motivation to Small Scale Enterprises Questionnaire was validated by the researchers who submitted drafted copies of the instrument to three test experts in the Centre for General Studies and Measurement and Evaluation respectively in CRUTECH. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach alpha coefficient. This method is used because Cronbach’s alpha provides the measure of the internal consistency among the items. Each sub-scale using Cronbach alpha approach yielded a reliability coefficient ranging from 0.66 to 0.77. The procedure for data analysis was descriptive (mean and standard deviation). Therefore, the data analysis was done per hypothesis by hypothesis, each of the hypotheses was broken down and the variables were identified including the statistical test and findings revealed that To a large extent industrial attachment skills influence students’ motivation to establish small-scale businesses. To a large extent industrial attachment skills is relevant and motivation to the establishment of small scale business. There are problems associated with industrial attachment skills and motivation to establish a small-scale business. It was recommended that Government should encourage skills acquisition by graduates.

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