CHALLENGES OF IMPROVING BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMMES THROUGH EFFECTIVE SCHOOL-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION FOR NATION BUILDING
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The study focused on challenges of improving business education programmes through effective school-industry collaboration for nation building in tertiary institutions in Anambra State. Three research questions guided the study and three null hypotheses were tested. A descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population of the study consisted of 93 business educators in tertiary institutions that offer business education programme in Anambra State. No sample was taken, as the population size was manageable. A 32-items structured questionnaire validated by three experts was used for the study. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach Alpha which showed that the clusters achieved co-efficient values of 0.88, 089 and 0.76 respectively for the clusters B1, B2 and B3, with an overall reliability co-efficient value of 0.83. Data related to the research questions were analyzed using mean and standard deviation while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that there are no serious collaboration between the business education and industries except for the Students' Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES). There is also no involvement of industries in the running of programme in business education in Anambra State, Nigeria. Some challenges tend to slow down the effective collaboration between business education, school and industries, and some suitable measures for improving the available programmes in business education through effective school-industry collaboration for nation building were identified. The study revealed that business educators in universities do not significantly differ from business educators in colleges of education on the available programmes, challenges and ways for improving business education through effective school-industry collaboration for nation building of tertiary institutions in Anambra State. It was concluded that business education programmes need effective collaboration between the school-industry to enhance nation building. It was recommended, among others, that school and industries should collaborate effectively in order to increase on the available programmes in business education for nation building.
Keywords: Challenges, Improving, business education programmes school-industry collaboration, nation building
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