Survey of Accessibility and Usage of Information and Communication Technology Among Students of Technical Education in Tertiary Institutions in Niger State, Nigeria

Abstract

This research investigates the availability, accessibility and usage of information and communication
technology (ICT) among students of technical education in Niger State tertiary institutions. The study
adopted survey research design with a structured questionnaire consisting of 40 items developed by the
researcher for data collection. The population of the study comprised of all the 1161 students of technical
education department from the two tertiary institutions offering technical education programmes in Niger
State. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. The findings of the study revealed
among others that ICT facilities are not available for students use at the department and as such they don’t
have assess to it. In terms of usage, the students mostly use commercial cybercafés for the purpose of
schools registration and thus there is poor usage of ICT for academic learning. Some recommendations
were made in line with the findings which among others include the urgent need for the department to
make ICT available and easily assessable for the students and also the need to mandate students to create
email address and also present assignments/ course projects through power point projector.