Binagde, Takele Negasa (2014) Factors Affecting Graduates of Technical and Vocational Education and Training on Self-Employment Status: The Case of Burayu Technical and Vocational Education and Training. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
This study was designed to assess the factors affecting the self employments of TVET graduates. It also addresses the overview of self employments in creating their own business and the supports they acquire from TVET colleges/institutes. In view of that, Vocational and Technical Education and Training (TVET) institutes and colleges are specially considered as a major tool to achieve the desired development through creating job opportunities. The questionnaire and interview methods of data collection were employed. Stratified random sampling techniques were used to select respondents from the target population and as a result, 165 respondents were participated. Therefore, out of a total 124, 103(83.06%) of the respondents are currently employed while 21(16.94%) of the respondents are unemployed. As it was indicated in item (3), out of a total 124, 39(31.5%) of the respondents indicated that they are self-employed, 53(42.7%) of them are wage employed while 32(25.8%) 0f them are unemployed. Interviewed respondents were also Dean of the college, the head office of MSE, and Entrepreneurial course instructors were selected using purposive sampling method. As the study revealed, factors influencing the graduates’ of Self employment status were classified in to economic and social factors. In addition , lack of guidance and counseling service, lack of capital or finance, Lack of access to the market, Competition in the market; mismatch between jobs available and larger number of new graduates produced, inadequate power supply and Lack of social acceptability. As far as motivational factors are concerned, graduates of different employment status reported that the graduates choose self-employment because of two main reasons: those that have entered voluntarily for reasons such as independence, job satisfaction and or anticipated higher incomes, and those that have been ‘pushed’ into self-employed because of the absence of any other attractive alternative. Furthermore, based on the major findings and conclusions, the following recommendations were made: providing financial support schemes for graduates to encourage self-employment by strengthening the relationship between TVET institution, micro finance institution, and MSE sector, strengthening the partnership between TVET institution and employing organizations, improving career guidance as necessary mechanism for helping students to select a marketable field of study, creation of easily accessible credit, loan services and tracing of graduates need to be addressed. It is advisable that the graduates are expected to develop confidence and openness to risk to run their own business. It is also recommendable that the graduates need to develop full confidence when jobs are available to them.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2018 09:52 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2018 09:52 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7634 |
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