DETERMINATION OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT SKILLS NEEDED BY BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA

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Faculty: Education
Department: Technology Education

CONTRIBUTORS:

Olawoyin, R. O.
Eze, A. N.

ABSTRACT:

The study determined self-employment skills needed by business education students in colleges of education in South-West, Nigeria. Six research questions guided the study while twelve null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for the study was 2,682 year III NCE business education students of the Federal and State owned colleges of education in South-West geo-political zone of Nigeria. The sample for the study was 348 year III NCE Business Education students of the government owned colleges of education. The instrument used for data collection was structured questionnaire titled Self-Employment Skills Questionnaire (SESQ). Three experts validated the instrument. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument in which 0.86 reliability coefficient was obtained for the instrument. Mean, standard deviation and summated score percentages were employed to analyze data for answering research questions while t-Test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found that Business Education students needed skills such as time management skills, self-motivation skills, interpersonal skills, human resource management skills, financial management skills and customer service skills for self-employment and national development. The hypotheses tested revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean responses of Business Education students on the time management skills, self-motivation skills, interpersonal skills, human resource management skills, financial management skills while there was significant difference in the mean responses of Business Education students on the customer service skills needed for self-employment. It was recommended among others that conferences, workshops, seminars and symposia should be organised by the ministry of education and they should be focused on the human resource management skills needed for self-employment and that Business Education students should be made to see it as compulsory to come up with feasible business plan before graduation in order to build their abilities in establishing businesses on their own for themselves and for the nation at large.

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