UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION IN PREPARING BUSINESS EDUCATION GRADUATES FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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This study investigated into university-industry collaboration in molding business education graduates for employment because unemployment percentage is rising everyday as a result of skill-mismatch among graduates in which business education is not exempted. Three research questions were drawn and answered by this research work. Descriptive survey design was used. The population of the study consists of sixteen business education lecturers of Ekiti State University hosted by Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo, Oyo state and the entire staff of 1,049 registered small-scale enterprises in Oyo State. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select sample size for this research work. Purposive sampling technique was used to choose business education lecturers of Ekiti State University, random sampling technique was used to choose twelve registered small scale enterprises and stratified sampling techniques was used to choose seven workers from each of the twelve selected enterprises. The sample is made up of 16 business education lecturers and 84 staff of different strata, making up of one hundred sampled respondents. Three-in-one questionnaire comprising of 21 items was the instrument used to gather data for the research work. Test-retest reliability method was used and reliability co-efficient of 0.75 was arrived at. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze research questions. When the mean value of an item was 2.50 and above it was regarded as Agreed and below 2.50 was regarded as Disagreed. Mean scores were subjected to ranking method. Based on the findings, the study recommends among others that optimum collaboration should come up between institution and industry in order to have industry-driven curricula for business education specializations in an effort to bridge the gap between classroom and the industry.
Key Words: University-Industry, Collaboration, Business Education, Graduates, Employment
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