Perception of the Internees Towards the Relevance of Internship Program in Selected Universities of South Western Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.53555/ssh.v4i3.295Keywords:
Internees, internship, perception, job attainmentAbstract
This study evaluated perception of the internees towards the relevance of internship program in selected universities of South-western Nigeria. Specifically, personal characteristics of participants and perceptions of the internees towards the relevance of internship training programmes to future job attainment of the internees were investigated. Multistage sampling technique was employed to select two hundred and sixty seven internees from the selected universities.namely Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAB) and Ekiti State University (EKSU). Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Chi – square (X2) test. The result showed that 70.8 percent of the respondents in all the focal universities were Christians, 28.5 percent were Muslims while 0.7 percent were traditional worshippers. It was revealed that most of respondents in LAUTECH (89.8%), OAU (98.5%), FUNAAB (80.5%), and EKSU (100.0%) were single. However, more of internees in FUNAAB (19.5%) and
LAUTECH (10.2%) were married. It was revealed that close to half (44.6%) of the respondents
perceived the relevance of internship to their future job relevance favourably while 40.2% had
neutral disposition to internship in relation to their future job prospect. However, 15.2% of
respondents perceived the relevance of internship to their future job relevance unfavourably. Age
(x2 = 483.988), marital status (x2= 51.881) and the Department of the internees (x2 = 764.638)
were significantly related to their perception of the future job relevance of the internship training
programme. It is concluded that, most of the internees are youths. Some of the respondents perceived
the relevance of internship to their future job relevance favourably. The internees’ department
was a very important factors that determine internees’ perception of the future job relevance of
the training programme.
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