Integration of new technological developments into technical college auto- mechanics course curriculum for enhancing job readiness of automotive students

This research was carried out with the aim of investigating into new technological developments in automotive technology that are important to be integrated into the present curriculum of auto-mechanics work at technical college level. Three (3) research questions were answered and the findings of this study represent the opinions of major stakeholders in the automotive sector and education in Nigeria. Findings of the study indicates thatt all the identified new technological innovations have implication for the works of today's automobile maintenance personnel. The design adopted for this study was survey research design and the area of the study covers two states from north-eastern part of Nigeria, these are Bauchi and Gombe States. The population used was automobile technology teachers and automobile workshop supervisors. A simple random sampling was adopted in selecting four technical colleges and five workshops from each state and the total no. of thirty two (32) respondents were used for the study which comprised of twenty two (22) auto-mechanic teachers and ten (10) supervisors. A semi-structured questionnaire containing 33 items which was validated by 5 experts in automobile technology >was used to collect data from the respondents. The data collected for the study was analyzed using mean and standard deviation.