Abstract

Developing students’ Interpersonal Skills is a core element of any well-designed Technical and VocationalEducation (TVE) particularly in this present era. This is couple with the fact that Interpersonal skills are amongthe crucial skills preferred in the world of work setting for the betterment of both employer and employee. Overthe years, employers of labour have drastically observed decline in interpersonal capabilities of high schoolgraduate for meeting the 21st century workplace’s challenges. However, abundant literatures have indicated thepotential roles of service-learning in providing students to achieve knowledge, cognitive skills (disciplinespecific Skills) and core employability skills specifically the interpersonal skills required in 21st centuryworkplaces. It is on this regard that this library work shed light on the concept of interpersonal skills, concept ofservice-learning, influence of service-learning in TVE for improving students’ interpersonal skills and the needsof interpersonal skills in TVE related job places. In conclusion, the paper discloses that the fact that there iscrucial demand for TVE graduates to posses interpersonal skills and other work skills for effective jobperformance in the competitive global work environment, it was finally recommended that in order to ensure noskills gap, educators in TVE training institutions, should equip the forthcoming TVE graduates with thenecessary skills for employment by lying more emphasize on renown and superior instructional pedagogies suchas the Service-Learning.

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