Extent of Polytechnic-Industry Collaboration in Skills Acquisition of Office Technology and Management Programme in Delta State

The study determines the extent of polytechnics-industry collaboration in skills acquisition of office technology and management programme in Delta State. It adopts the descriptive survey design. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was 848 which include 24 lecturers and 824 students. A sample size of five hundred and twenty six (526) was drawn from the students’ population while all the lecturers were involved in the study. This brought the respondents to 540 respondents. A structured questionnaire, design with 84 items questions in three parts was validated by experts in Office Technology and Management department. The reliability of the instrument was established through the use of Chronbach Alpha Statistics which yielded overall reliability coefficient of 0.87. The data collected from respondents were analyzed using descriptive mean and standard deviation, while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study concluded that polytechnics collaborate with some local industries to a high extent but collaborate with foreign industries/universities to a low extent. It was recommended among others that polytechnics should strengthen existing policies that enable them collaborate with industries in order to foster practical learning to enable students acquire better and enhance skills.