Purpose: This study explores how career training with mentoring (CTM) programs work in Nigerian higher education (HE) institutions to foster students' career development and employability of graduates. It also explores how Nigerian HE curriculum can be adequately used to facilitate CTM as well as possible constraints to effective implementation of…

The Leventis Foundation (Nigeria) Agricultural Schools (LFNAS) are schools established to train youths to develop their state and their nation in the area of food production. This study sought to assess the trainability of enrollees in the three operating LFNAS. Five research questions were posed. The CIPP evaluation model was adopted. The…

The effects of attending school in urban and rural areas on vocational aspirations of students in Nigeria is discussed, based on a survey of students in those schools. (JMF)

A correlational model based on vocational development theory was constructed to analyze the implementation of crystallized occupational preference and goal attainment projections of high school graduates in Nigeria. Data were collected from 180 male and female final year occupational trainees at the University and Polytechnic. The primary focus…

This paper sets out career-related stories of people and their struggle to make sense of a life through work. They show that career management is not primarily a matching process but, for most, the making of a life the best way one can. The nine stories from five continents have these focuses: a feeling for a career; a career is other people or…