Intensification of Business Education Programme towards Enhancing Nigerian Business Education Graduates Productivity in Labour Market
Sarafadeen Segun Salami
Department of Educational Management and Counseling (Business Education Unit), Faculty of Education, Al-Hikmah University Ilorin, Nigeria.
Rasheed Olawale Olawoyin *
Department of Business Education, School of Vocational & Technical Education, The College of Education Lanlate, Oyo State, Nigeria.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to identify how business education programme would be intensified towards enhancing Nigerian business Education graduates productivity in labour market. To achieve this, the paper among other things examined globalization, business education and its roles in curriculum development cum implementation, materials resources, challenges facing business education programme, encouraging employers’ participation in career guidance programme for business education students still in school and a host of others. Conclusively, the paper suggested that government and relevant agencies for Business Education Programme should make concerted effort to intensify Business Education programme in order to make the students relevant in the labour market. Also, Qualified Business Educators should be employed and provided with the current business related reading materials. The paper therefore recommended among others that Business Education curriculum should be diversified as to accommodate the current need of the society, Government should endeavour to provide both human and material resources for proper intensification of Business Education programme and Information and communication technologies (ICTs) with stable electricity should be provided for the department of Business Education.
Keywords: Intensification, business education, productivity, labour market.