THE DUAL ROLE OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SECRETARIAL EDUCATION
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THE DUAL
ROLE OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO
SECRETARIAL EDUCATION
ABSTRACT
This research
was based on the Dual Role of Business Education. In the Nigeria Economy with
particular Reference To Secretarial Education its objectives, highlightening
its benefits to the individual as well as to the society.
The role of
Business Education is then analysed with the aim of alerting the authorities of
the implications of not encouraging Business Education as a means of overcoming
the problems of prevailing unemployment.
Four
research questions guided this study. Survey research design was employed for
the study. The population of the study consisted of forty final year students
of the secretarial studies Department of Federal College of Education Technical
Akoka. A structured questionnaire containing fifteen items were used for the
data collected. The data were collated and analysed using the four points
Likert scale. It was discovered that Business Education is indispensable to the
Nigeria Economy because it introduces students to the world of work and
enlightens them on the rich careers in Business Education. Findings also
revealed among others that lack of adequate facilities to teach and build in
the right skill is jeopardizing the mission of Business Education. Based on the
findings it was recommended that Government/stakeholders should provide adequate
funds to equip laboratories for teaching and learning typing shorthand and
computer applications. It would certainly encourage competence in the skills
after graduation secondly teachers for Secretarial/Business Education should be
trained to make them more relevant.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Although
business education is often described as “education FOR and ABOUT business”
‘(Nwosu, 1999), its primary purpose is to prepare individuals for gainful
employment in business occupations. Whether paid -employment or self
employment, the emphasis is on exposure to, and acquisition of, knowledge,
skills and attitudes relevant and adequate for employment in specific business
occupations. Therefore the value of any business education could be determined
in its ability to adequately prepare and equip individuals in such a manner
that they could fit into specific jobs or establish their own business on
graduation.
Business
education is also defined as that education which prepares students for entry
into and or advancement in jobs within business, and prepares them to handle
their own business affairs and function. Intelligently as consumers and citizen
in a business economy (Popham 1975). Anao (1986) stated that business education
could simply mean an educational process or content that has its primary aim as
preparation of people for roles in business enterprise.
A review of
the roles of business education is necessary as this will enable one to
determine the roles it plays or should play in the Nigerian Economy. Some of
the major roles reflects previous education and experience, career needs,
learning goals and personal aspirations of students.
(1) It
provides career guidance to adult student to increase their awareness of
various job opportunities and changing requirements for career entry and advancement.
Business
education is entirely vocational in the sense that the recipient is prepared
for manifold purposes e.g. As a business teacher, an office worker and a
collector of information for self use. It is a wide discipline that encompasses
a number of specialist areas like secretarial studies, accounting, business
management, distributive education, computer studies and marketing.
Business
education with emphasis on the acquisition of secretarial skills is one of the
educational systems that provides employable skills. What is particularly
significant about secretaryship is that the skill will continue to be in high
demand and those with it will never be stranded in the labour market. Anao
(1987) speaking on the role of business education in a developing economy saw
secretarial education as that educational process or context which has the role of preparing people for enterprise
as employed entrepreneur /employer and or self employed.
Secretarial
studies, like many other programmes of study had a very humble beginning in
Nigeria. This is partly due to the method and
nature of the training received. Secretarial training was left mainly in
the hands of the “road side” trainers this led to the academic snobbery of being a programme for the
“dropout”, However this snobbery was soon erased after independence, when the
country decided to vocationalise education to curb the unemployment problems
being faced at the time (Onabamiro 1982). As a result secretarial studies (an
integral part of business education studies was then given a due recognition in
the formal educational system. (FRN, 1998)
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The world in
particular is growing in complexity day in day out while the labour market is
getting saturated daily. For the past years Nigeria economy has not been
encouraging. There has been serious surge of unemployment which has led to
some, other diverse crimes like robbery which now come in different form other
than the main way of carrying gun. Business education could serve as a means to
a buoyant economy. The question is, what is the standard of Business Education
in Nigeria? What is parental attitude towards business education? Another
problem is the fussiness surrounding the operational definition of business
education as it relates to Nigeria. This research is concerned about solutions
to these questions.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose
of this study is aimed at determining The role Business Education plays in
Nigeria economy. It is also meant to alert the authorities of the implication
of not encouraging Business Education as a means of overcoming the problems of
prevailing unemployment.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study
is significant to students as they will derive the knowledge that business
Education provides them with the needed skills that will make them relevant in
the world of work. Parents would also appreciate the subject as a vocation for
future benefits of their children. To the government and society, it will
create awareness of government
philosophy of education, that is to foster the worth and development of
the individual for each individuals sake and for the general development of the
society.
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS.
1. What is the benefit of business education
in the Nigeria economy.
2. What role does secretarial Education play in
the Nigeria Economy.
3. Are there
enough qualified teachers for the teaching of secretarial education.
4. To what extent are the resources, materials
needed for adequate training in this programme available
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The scope of
this study is limited to the year three (Final year) students of the
secretarial studies department of Federal College of Education Technical Akoka.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
There are
many limitations to this research. Family commitment, poor funding, time
constraint in the gathering of information etc.
Time is a
factor when other academic commitments are put into consideration and money as
a means of moving around in the source of materials and information, attitudes
of the respondents in responding to questions objectively.
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