ACCOUNTING SKILLS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENHANCING VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

Vocational and technical education is as old as the human race. This is because, since history, man has engaged in one form of trade/occupation or the other. The objective of this study is to determine whether accounting skills enhances vocational and technical education for development. To achieve this goal, research questions were raised and extensive literature review was carried out. The study being a descriptive research design, a well structured questionnaire was administered to eighty respondents of vocational and accounting education lecturers and final year vocational and accounting education students from College of Education Warri and that of University of Port Harcourt, using purposive and random sampling technique. The data garnered were analyzed in line with the objectives of the study using the mean scores. Findings revealed that, accounting skills has high implications for the enhancement of vocational and technical education for development, though there are some factors militating against its effectiveness. The finding also revealed some other factors militating against vocational and technical education as a tool for national development. It was however recommended that vocational and technical education students and grandaunts should be made and encouraged respectively, to acquire basic accounting skills. Those factors militating against the effectiveness of accounting and vocational education should also be addressed