Impacts of poor developed curriculum of public universities on graduate Unemployment in the South East Zone of Nigeria

Abstract

This paper investigated impacts of poor developed curriculum of public universities on graduate unemployment in the south east zone of Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis guided this study. Descriptive research survey design was used for this study. Population of this study is 9,000 which comprised 400 male and 500 female students in Alvan Ikoku federal college of education Owerri, Imo state. Sample size of this study is 270 obtained using samples of 120 males and 150 females’ students in six departments using stratified random sampling technique.  Researcher developed questionnaire “titled impacts of poor developed curriculum of public universities on graduate unemployment in Nigeria was used with four rating scales. Instrument was validated and reliability coefficient of the instrument were 0.87 and 0.97 using Cronbach alpha. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data. Chi square statistics was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 alpha levels. The findings from this study revealed that the cause of graduate unemployment in Nigeria is poor development of curriculum in public universities in Nigeria. It was recommended from this study that government should endorse review of Nigerian curriculum. This would ensure the inclusion of skill acquisition or vocational courses students are supposed to engage with when there is no job after their graduation