SCHOOL-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION IN BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR DEVELOPING WORK- READY GRADUATES IN DELTA STATE

Daniel Osamwonyi IYOHA, PhD, Ugonwa Felicia Umeh, PhD

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The study examined school-industry collaboration in business education programme for developing work-ready business education graduates in Delta State. Two research questions guided the study while two null hypotheses were tested at .05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised 76 business education lecturers from tertiary institutions and 80 registered small-scale business enterprise in Delta North Senatorial District of Delta State. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three experts in Business education from Madonna University Nigeria. Test-re-test method was used to ascertain the reliability of the instrument. A reliability coefficient of 0.82 was obtained using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. Data collected to answer the research questions were analyzed using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested using independent t-test. Result revealed that there is no significant difference between the mean rating of lecturers of business education and industrialists on the areas of collaboration between schools and industries in promoting business education programme. The result also showed that there is no significant difference between the mean rating of lecturers of business education and industrialists on the benefits of collaboration between schools and industries in promoting business education programme.Conclusion was drawn and recommendations proffered among others that business education programme should be linked with employers of labour and industries to give business education students practical knowledge of the world of work and work-ready on graduation

Keywords: School-industry, collaboration, Developing, Business Education graduates, work-ready


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