Perceived Strategies for Stimulating Life Skills and Entrepreneurship Education in Nigerian Universities

James Okoro

Abstract


Business Education is a program aimed at imparting life skills and entrepreneurship skills to enable graduates function effectively in the world of work. Unfortunately, the programme is bedevilled with myriads of constraints resulting in non-achievement of the objectives of the programme. Therefore, this study assessed the strategies for stimulating life/entrepreneurship education in Nigerian universities. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A questionnaire containing 26 items which was adequately validated with reliability coefficient of 0.75 was administered to a total sample of 126 lecturers in Business Education programmes in Nigerian Universities in the South-South geo-political zone. Mean scores where used to analyse the data and t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was revealed that inadequate lecturers, teaching facilities, non-availability of a clear policy document on NUC minimum standard, inadequate laboratories, outdated curriculum were some of the constraints to life skills/entrepreneurship acquisition. It was accordingly recommended that. NUC minimum standard on business education should be provided. The curriculum should be updated and teaching facilities provided to stimulate life skill/entrepreneurship education.

 


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