DIGITAL SKILLS NEEDED BY BUSINESS EDUCATION GRADUATES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
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The study was conducted to ascertain the digital skills needed by business education graduates for unemployment reduction in the 21st century in Ogun State, Nigeria. A self-designed four rating scale questionnaire titled: Digital Skills for Employment Questionnaire (DSEQ) was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by experts and was also subjected to internal consistency testing using Cronbach Alpha, and the reliability coefficient obtained was 0.83. The population of the study comprised 470 Business education students: 165 males and 305 females in three colleges of education in Ogun State. The sample of the study comprised 216 (male 76 and female 140) respondents determined by using yaro yemen’s model and proportionate sampling technique. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data and find answers to the research questions, while t-test was used to test the research hypotheses. Findings of the study suggested that e-commerce, digital business analysis and digital communication skills are needed for unemployment reduction among business education graduates. The results of hypotheses testing revealed that there is no significant difference in the mean score of male and female business education graduates on e-commerce related skills; there is no significant difference in the mean score of business education graduates in federal and state owned colleges of education on digital business analysis related skills; and there is no significant difference in the mean score of business education graduates in public and private colleges of education on digital communicating skills needed by business education graduates for unemployment reduction in the 21st century. It was recommended among others that colleges of education should continue to provide equal training for both male and female undergraduates to acquire e-commerce skills to be successful in the digital economy of the 21st century.
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