STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION CURRICULUM BY UNIVERSITY LECTURERS FOR SELF-RELIANCE IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigates strategies for effective implementation of business education curriculum by universities lecturers for self-reliance in South-East Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Two specific purposes and research questions guided the study, while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit responses from 89 business education lecturers from five universities in South-East Nigeria. The instrument was validated by three experts from the Department of Business Education, University of Nigeria Nsukka. The reliability of the instrument was calculated using Cronbach Alpha statistic which yielded an overall cluster reliability coefficient of 0.89. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation, while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using t-test and ANOVA. The study found that the lecturers were in agreement that all the strategies identified in the study are strategies for the effective implementation of business education curriculum in universities. Such strategies include: training of lecturers in regard to technologies, conducting seminars and workshops to help lecturers keep abreast of technological changes among others. The findings also reveals that there is no significant difference between the mean responses of male and female lecturers on the strategies for effective implementation of business education curriculum by university lecturers for self-reliance in South East, Nigeria.  Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that the university authorities should seek assistance from non-governmental organization, alumni, parents and philanthropies in order to adequately fund business education programmes to enable them have some required facilities for effective teaching and learning. Also, there should be a well-established communication link between the universities and industries.