SUMMARY
Technical and Vocational Education programme is meant to train personnel to acquire skills either for self employment or for industrial and national economic development. Despite the importance of technical and vocational Education to the individual and the entire nation, it is being faced with poor enrolment in schools with low standard of performance and withdrawal to another discipline later in life. This is as a result of poor method of admitting students into the programme which exclude consideration for students’ interest (intrinsic motivation) as well as their thinking styles. Whereas, personal interest and innovative or creative thinking styles actually work together to produce creativity. This study therefore was meant to justify the need to include students’ intrinsic motivation (interest) and their thinking styles as part of the measures for admitting students into a qualitative Technical Education Degree programmes. The sample of the study consisted of 45 technical education Degree students of College of Education, Ikere Ekiti in a programme affiliated with University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti Nigeria. The study utilizes both psychometric instrument and in- depth interview to collect data from its subjects. The study was out to determine the quality of the students’ personal interest in the course as well as their their creative thinking style or domain. Why data collected was analyzed using both the qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis. The study found that most students’ creative performance was low, and that most of them were admitted not because of their interest but because it was the last option for them. It was therefore recommended that additional psychometric tests should accompany the aptitude test for admission as this will enhance qualitative Technical Education Degree programme.