BUSINESS EDUCATORS’ PERCEIVED STRATEGIES FOR THE ACQUISITION OF EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS AMONG BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN PUBLIC TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH-SOUTH GEOPOLITICAL ZONE, NIGERIA
Abstract
This study focused on Business Educators’ Perceived Strategies for the Acquisition of
Employability Competencies among Business Education Students in Public Tertiary Institutions in
South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria. Two specific objectives and corresponding research
questions as well as one hypothesis guided the study. The study employed descriptive survey
research design. The population of the study comprised five hundred and twenty-one (521)
Business Educators drawn from Public Tertiary Institutions in South-South Geopolitical Zone of
Nigeria. The entire population was studied. An instrument titled: “Business Educators’ Perceived
Strategies for the Acquisition of Employability Competencies among Business Education Students
(BEPSAECBEG)” was designed and used to elicit information from the respondents. The
instrument was validated by three experts, one from Measurement and Evaluation option of
Science Education Department, two from Business Education Department all in Ebonyi State
University, Abakaliki. The entire items of the instrument yielded a reliability co-efficient of 0.94.
Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test were used to
test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that institutional management
and business education resource exhibition enhances student acquisition of employability skills in
Business Education. While the hypothesis indicates that there is significant difference in the mean
ratings of business educators on the perceived strategies in business education in public tertiary
institutions in South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria based on gender. Based on the findings the
study recommended that business education resources exhibition should be integrated and made to
form part of the curriculum exercise and implementation in Business Education.
Keywords: Business Educators, Strategies, Employability skills, Business Education.