Curriculum Development in Business Education: Challenges in Enhancing the Implementation (Published)
Business Education programme in Nigeria requires a proactive and effective assessment that can bridge the gap between theory and practice. This will go a long way in ensuring the correlation between skills and competency displayed by graduates of business education and the certificate they obtain to parade looking for white-collar jobs in the world of competition. This can only be achieved through a well-structured and update of business education curriculum. The curriculum development process include: curriculum content with details of what the teachers are expected to teach and each students expected to learn. Business education graduates should be able to put to practice the skills professed by their certificates. The study examines, concept of curriculum development, types of curriculum development models, principles of curriculum development, trends that will shape curriculum development. Some of the challenges in enhancing the implementation of business education curriculum are; Inadequate funding of business education programme, Poor maintenance of business education equipment, unstructured curriculum in business education and inadequate qualified lecturers. Among others, it was recommended that the university authorities should adequately fund Business education Programmes to enable them have a required facilities for effective teaching and learning and employing adequate qualified teachers to teach in business education programme
Keywords: Business Education, Curriculum Development, Implementation
Training Needs of Business Educators in the Universities for Sustainable Development in Rivers State, Nigeria (Published)
Business education is relevant for human growth, development and sustainability. This study is aimed at determining the training needs of business educators in universities for sustainable development in Rivers State. The researchers adopted descriptive survey research design. The study was carried out in Rivers State. The population of the study comprised 53 lecturers of business education in universities in Rivers State. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. Mean with standard deviation was used to analyze data related to the research questions. The z-test was used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that business education teachers need ICT and cash management skills for successful operation of small scale business for sustainable development in Rivers State of Nigeria. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended among others that business educators should be trained and re-trained on cash management skills for sustainable development in Rivers State of Nigeria.
Keywords: Business Education, Business Educators and Sustainable Development, Training needs