DOMICILIATION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME INNIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The paper ascertained thedomiciliation status of business education programme and its options in Nigerian universities.The population comprised all 280 lecturers in 32 universities offering business
education. Seventeen (17) heads of department and 135 were sampled from the North-Central, South-East, South-South and South-West geopolitical zones.Multistage sampling procedure was adopted in selecting 152 from 280 lecturers. Four specific objectives and research questions guided the study.One null hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Structured questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.87 was used to collect data. Of 152 copies of
questionnaire distributed, 149 were retrieved and analysed; usingmean, standard deviation and ttest. The findings showed that accounting education100%, OTM 82%, marketing 59%, entrepreneurship 18% and distributive 24% were available. From the results, business education is
domiciled in Faculties of Education 87%, Business Studies 9% and Technology and Science Education 4%. At departmental level, itis domiciled inBusiness Education 36% (as a separate department), Vocational and Technical Education 30%, Educational Management and Business Studies 2%, Educational Foundation and Management 11% and Arts and Social Science Education 20% (as units). There was no significant difference in the lecturers’ perception on the domiciliation
status of the programme. It was concluded that accounting education and OTM were available 100% and 82% respectively, others:marketing, entrepreneurship and distributive education were virtually unavailable,suggesting they might be domiciled in other faculties or departments;that domiciliation of the programme in different faculties and departments, especially as a unit, will ultimately affect the options and could result in loose of its real identity.It was recommended that business education should domicile in Faculty of Education; that business education programme should be a separate department in all the universities offering the programme to encourage expansion of the options.