Strategies for Stimulating Skills Acquisition in Business Education in Universities in Delta State

Abstract

This descriptive survey was adopted to assess Business Education lecturers stimulating strategies for enhancing skill’s acquisition in Business Education programme in Universities in South-South Nigeria. The population comprises 123 lecturers in Business Education which also served as sample. A 29-items questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. It has two parts; Part A (4 items on demographic variables of the respondents, while Part B contains 21 items related to the research question. The questionnaire was validated by two (2) experts in Business Education and (2) experts in Measurement and Evaluation at the Delta State University, Abraka. A questionnaire was administered to twelve (12) lecturers of Business Education at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka to establish its reliability. The data obtained where subjected to cronbach’s alpha and yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.86.  Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research question items. The findings are; the need for recruitment of qualified teachers in Business Education, teachers in Business Education must have requisite skills to teach business courses, teachers in Business Education should have a competency-based education among others. It was recommended that adequate funding should be provided by school authorities and qualified Business Education lecturers should employed to teach.