CHALLENGES OF IMPROVING INSTITUTION-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION AND CURRICULUM INNOVATION IN BUSINESS EDUCATION IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN ANAMBRA STATE
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The study focused on the challenges of improving institution-industry collaboration and curriculum innovation in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested. A descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population of the study consisted of 117 business educators in government owned tertiary institutions that offer business education programme in Anambra State. No sample was taken, as the population size was manageable. A 22-items structured questionnaire titled “challenges of improving institution-industry collaboration and curriculum innovation” was validated by two experts for the study. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach Alpha which showed that the clusters achieved co-efficient values of 0.92 and 0.88 respectively for the clusters B1 and B2, with an overall reliability co-efficient value of 0.90. 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 many challenges of improving institution-industry collaboration and curriculum innovation in business education in tertiary institutions. 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 business education through effective institution-industry collaboration and curriculum innovation were identified. The study revealed that business educators from federal and state owned tertiary institutions in Anambra State differ significantly on the challenges and ways of improving institution-industry collaboration and curriculum innovation in tertiary institutions in Anambra State. It was concluded that there exists little connection between the business education programmes and the workplace. It was recommended, among others, that business education with institutions should provide liaisons offices for industries to and helps in bridging the collaboration gap institutions and industries.
Keywords: Challenges, Improving, business education programmes institution-industry collaboration.
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