Impact of Subsidy Removal on Lecturers Jobperformance and Students Academic Achievement in Vocational Education in Colleges of Education North-Central, Nigeria

The study examines the impact of subsidy removal on lecturers job-performance and students academic achievement in Vocational Education in Colleges of Education North-Central, Nigeria. Two objectives and research questions were raised and the study adopted survey research design and the study was carried out in four federal and 6 state colleges of education North-Central Nigeria using structured questionnaire titled: Impact of Subsidy-Removal on Lecturers Job Performance and Student Academic Achievement in Vocational Education (ISRLJSAAVE) as the instrument for data collection which was designed by the researcher using 5 type Likert scale with response option as Strongly Agreed (SA), Agreed (A), Disagreed (DA), Strongly Disagreed (SD) and Undecided (U). The instruments for data collection was subjected to face content and construct validation by chief lecturer form department of Vocational Education Federal College of Education Zuba and two chief lecturers from School of Vocational Education Home Economies department Niger State College of Education Minna. The total population for the study was 279 lecturers from 10 federal and states Colleges of Education offering vocational education within the North-Central Nigeria. The North Central geopolitical zone consists of 6 states Niger, Kwara, Nassarawa, Kogi, Benue, Plateau and Federal Capital Territory. The findings of the study revealed that all the school of vocational education academic lecturers jointly agreed to all the items presented on the impact of subsidy removal on lecturers job performance in vocational education with grand mean of 3.87 and 3.72 on the impact of subsidy removal on students' academic achievement in vocational education in colleges of education in North-Central, Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that effort should be made by both State and Federal government to increase funding to vocational education at the colleges of education and as well establish scholarships and financial aid to assist both the lecturers and students with require financial assistance, especially those adversely affected by increased transportation, rents and living cost dues to the fuel subsidy removal and Government should subsidy essentials educational instructional materials for students such as textbooks, computers, transportation fees among others, in order to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal in the country.