CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
It has been observed that for a long time the education of women was not taken seriously and it made women engage in activities mostly related to king care at the home. The traditional beliefs that places women at the home front denies most women the access to educational opportunities that will empower them to perform their roles creditably as well as enable them engage in gainful employment for varying factors.
The Nigeria for instance a large number of the percentage of life state population are women (Radas 1990; 28). Again, the population crisis committee (200) statistically rated the status of women in 99 countries of the world are found Nigeria women status to be extremely poor with respect to health education, marriage, children and social participation. Only five other countries ranked lower than Nigeria out of the 99 countries. This has led to a renewed emphasis on women education in Nigeria over the years with increase in the area of vocational training.
In the era where gainful employment is a mirage the need he be self employed and self reliant become imperatives. There is need to provide an alternative means through which the individual can acquire skill. Ti this end, adult education is aimed of helping the individual to achieve a degree of self fulfillment happiness and meaning in life. Adult education takes three (3) forms namely:
Informal, and non informal and formal vocational education is a formal made of learning geared towards skills acquisition in hand work for self reliance there is therefore need to provide opportunities for women to enable them contribute their quota effectively to their home national progress and most importantly for self development and self reliance to achieve this to provide vocational education as the envisaged from education which has been as a vehicle through which individuals conception self reliance hence the importance of setting –up vocational training centres so as to achieve the acquisition of just skill. If is important to note that these have now taken a new dimension such that it is women that mostly dominate the classes in most non-formal education hunters in Edo State it is no different that is why you allows (1995:19) advocated that women participate. In non formal education and training centres vocational training programmes have improved women awareness and equally giving them skills for self reliance the curriculum content of such programmer is such that meets the needs and aspiration of the participants as well as that of income generation which will go a long way in eradicating poverty among women talks and enabling them subsidize the family income, the term vocational education a the acquisition of skill, knowledge and attitude in any area of study profession or occupation to quality one for gainful employment or self employment that is it is oriented towards the world of work.
According to Umamerge (1998) vocational education prepares youth for payment industries commerce and other enterprises by exposing them experience that provide the manipulative cognitive and attitudinal skills that make them qualify for it if also provide experience for adult who are already employed and whose skills have become obsolete and needed to update them, in summary one can say from the above definitions that vocational education;
Training geared to words gainful employment The education geared to words the development of appropriate skills, attitudes and understanding required to fit one into any chosen occupation Education for training or re-training for the development of competences for specific jobs Education geared toward career orientation.
Vocational education has recognized all over the world as a potent instrument for fighting the plague of unemployment. It is believed that most people are unemployed because they look employable skills with vocational education, they will; be provided with such skills that will make the employed.
The focus of this research work is to identify the patterns of vocational training for women, precise involved in such training (vocational) and identify the impacts of such vocational received by women in Edo State in their attainment of self reliance
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
There is the need for nations to develop their citizens through the provision of desirable training that will make them attain self-reliance. One means to achieving this is through the provision training in Edo State illiteracy and ignorance amongst women folks makes it difficult for them to realize the need for self-reliance in vocational education studies women have not been effective involved in vocational training programmes for self development. This problem did not receive adequate attention until biting economic hardship beclouded the hope and aspiration of the people. The primary objectives of vocational training centres is to equip the participation with various vocational skill and knowledge to enable them contribute more meaningfully to their family, community and national development.
The problem of this study therefore, is to find out how vocational training programmes have been able to improve the status of women in Edo State.