BUSINESS EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM AND GRADUATES’ SUSTAINABLE CAREER FULFILMENT IN SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Business Education Graduates, Career Fulfilment, Career Prospects, Sustainability, Undergraduate Curriculum.Abstract
The uniqueness of Business Education undergraduate curriculum is its goal of empowering recipients for sustainable career fulfilment in Business and Education. Contrary to the goals and objectives of business education university programme, many graduates of the programme are found to be either unemployed or underemployed. Therefore, this study aimed at determining the factors inhibiting graduates’ sustainable career fulfilment in the Business Education undergraduate programme in Nigeria. The research design was a descriptive survey while the population comprised of all business education graduates in South-West, Nigeria. The sample size of 77 graduates were randomly selected at federal and state universities within the area of the study due to some challenges to reach the graduates physically. A structured e-questionnaire was used for data collection. Internal consistency of the instrument was determined using Cronbach’s alpha which yielded a coefficient value of 0.72. The findings of the study showed that teaching career seems to be given the highest prominence in the curriculum while inadequate instructional resources, negative attitudes of lecturers, poor industrial exposures, among others, were responsible for inadequate sustainable career fulfilment of graduates. Active commitment of all stakeholders for optimum empowerment of students for career fulfilment was a major recommendation.
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