Educated but Unemployable? The Secondary School Curriculum and Work Skills Acquisition in Cameroon
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https://doi.org/10.53555/es.v3i11.197Keywords:
curriculum,, employability, skills, career educationAbstract
Set on the backdrop of the link between education and employment, and the frequent complaints by employers in Cameroon that students who pass through the secondary general curriculum do not often possess the skills required by industry, this paper sets out to investigate the extent to which students’ acquisition of world-of-work skills is enhanced by the secondary general education curriculum in Cameroon. Using the survey design, with a sample population of 500 (300 students, 100 employers, 50 unemployed and 50 employed graduates of secondary general education) the study investigates the extent to which students’ acquisition of employability skills is enhanced by the secondary general curriculum in Cameroon. It found out that there is no significant relationship between the students’ acquisition of employability skills and the secondary general curriculum of
Cameroon with implications that there is an urgent need to improve teaching and for a career education program to be set up within secondary general education sector to make the learners job ready.
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