Perception of TPET lecturers' on the effect of global partnerships in developing students' career human capital

This study plans to look at the perception of TPET (technical and professional education and training) lecturers on the effect of global partnerships in developing students' expertise and abilities to engage in entrepreneurial career and lifelong learning tasks. A structured questionnaire approved by four lecturers was administered to a sample of 158 TPET lecturers, which was randomly selected across universities in South-South Nigeria. The reliability coefficient utilizing the Cronbach alpha was ?=.89. A quantitative approach was used in the study by using standard deviation to assess the degree to which participants' responses were clustered around the mean. A one-sample t-test was also used to find the difference in scores between global partnerships and its effects in developing students' expertise and abilities to engage in entrepreneurial career and lifelong learning tasks. The results indicated that global partnerships could influence the development of students' expertise and abilities to engage in entrepreneurial career and lifelong learning tasks based on TPET lecturers' perception. The analysis of hypotheses 1 and 2 demonstrated that global partnerships do not have a significant effect on the development of students' expertise and abilities to engage in entrepreneurial career and lifelong learning tasks. These findings have some practical implications for all major stakeholders of TPET such as the government, families, international donor agencies, and employers. © 2020 The authors and IJLTER.ORG. All rights reserved.