Managing Education for Youth Economic Security Toward Sustainability Development in University of Maroua, Cameroon

This study investigated parents, teachers and undergraduate students’ perception of the relationship between a well-managed youth education for economic, security toward sustainability geared in development. The study was an ex-post-facto research, stratified sampling technique was used to select the respondents thus: 100 parents (50 from each sex); 200 teachers made of 100 males and 100 females as well as 300 final year undergraduates of university of Maroua, consisted of 150 from each gender thus, made 600 subjects as study population. A-44 item questionnaire was made from the researcher’s instrument called Parents, Teachers and Students’ Descriptive Questionnaire (PTSDQ) to elicit data after validation by experts in test and measurement, using the SPSS Package and had these scores 0 .71 Kr-20. Reliability and validity coefficient of 0.68 Cronbach Alpha. The data were analyzed using Statistical Instrument, results bearing 0.77(parents), 0.88 (teachers) and 0.87 (students) at 0.01 level of Significance for the youth education was higher than that of parents with 0.64 and teacher (0.85) while students had (0.87). Findings indicated that religion had been a major barrier to the girl-child education in some parts of Maroua and the country. Furthermore, differences between the teachers’ and the students’ perception of the relationship existing between the girl-child and sustainable national development is attributed to the differences in the levels of education and experience. Even though the results showed that all respondents agreed that youth Education contributes significantly to the Sustainability of national development but most of them equated youth education to boy-child education and the girl-child but yet to give the girl-child Education the same level of importance. The paper recommended that government should be the vanguard of education provision for all, while girl-child education be given top priority. Furthermore, government and stakeholders of education should effectively be involved in providing quality and control education for all without sex, class or creed discrimination. The paper further recommended that those saddled with the responsibility of managing education should be given training regularly so as to equip them with modern techniques for optimal production toward sustainability development after youth graduation from university of Maroua in particular and graduands from other universities in Cameroon in general.