Technical And Vocational Training Job Match In Oromia Regional State: The Case Of Ilu Aba Bor Zone

Abstract

This research was to investigate technical and vocational training job match in the Ilu Abba Bor zone. The descriptive survey research design was used. In this study, both qualitative and quantitative method were employed. Among seven TVET in the Ilu Aba Bor Zone four officers and four deans were purposely taken from four weredas, namely Mettu wereda, Darimu werda, Gore wereda, and Yayo woerda after these TVETs which were selected randomly. Here, 74 teachers, and 20 graduated students in the last three years who were unemployed using a simple random sampling technique. Based on this fact, 133 respondents were taken for this study from four weredas. The research was conducted by using instruments such as questionnaire, interview and document analysis to collect data. The data were collected through qualitative and quantitative method. The data obtained through qualitatively analyzed and narrated to strengthen the result from the quantitative analysis and presented with the qualitative part. Thus, the data were collected through a questionnaire, which was tallied and tabulated by frequency, percentage, standard deviation, and variance. Percentage was used to present background information about respondents and to identify which of the items were rated as the major factors. Similarly,the collected data was organized, tabulated, and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, version 26).The result show that the training was not related with the actual job and this was uniform in all weredas. Moreover, the one-way ANOVA was conducted to identify if any difference existed in the respondents' perception across the four woredas. Result shows that no significant difference existed among the woredas except for item number with a confidence interval of p 0.05 and F (4, 119) = 3.61. The distribution of F at 5% level with the degree of freedom being between groups = 3 and within groups = 129 could have arisen due to chance. This analysis supports the null hypothesis of no difference in sample means. However, there is a significant difference as the calculated values were 0.01 and 0.05, as the p-value is 0.05, which reveals they benefited. In other words, there was no statistically significant difference between all respondents from all woredas. Regarding the basics factors TVET institution leaders’ lack of commitment to working to build trust in the capacity of trainers to prepare their trainees properly for industrial operation and the relevance of TVET acquired skills to their industry. On the other hand, leaders of TVET complained that industries are wasting time on creating an encouraging environment for frequent communication on how the relationship is to be managed in the partnership. The development and implementation of partnership management strategies determines the continuous growth and maintenance of the collaboration between TVET institutions and industries. From this study, it can be concluded that the TVET training intuitions were established for small-scale industries; however, the job match should be a matter which needs attention. It is expected that TVET trainers be productive in their actual jobs. TVET has a vital role in minimizing unemployment