APPRAISAL OF CURRICULUM CONTENT AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES OF BUSINESS EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Abstract

The study focused on appraisal of curriculum content and career opportunities of Business Education graduate programmes in Nigeria a case study of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. Two research objectives, two research questions and two research Hypotheses were developed for the study. Survey research design was adopted and a questionnaire instrument tagged “Business Education Curriculum Content and Career opportunities Questionnaire Instrument (BECCCOI)” with the use of four Linkert scale was used to collect data. The data collected was validated by 2 experts and the reliability co-efficient is 0.71was realized. The data was analyzed and tested using Regression analysis. The Hypotheses were tested at alfa equals to 0.05 level. The first Null Hypothesis was retained while the later was rejected and the finding is that Business Education Curriculum has no relevance with Career opportunities in Nigeria. Therefore, it was concluded that there is no significant relevance of business education curriculum content on career opportunities among business education graduate in Nigeria. It was recommended that Business educators and curriculum planners should as a matter of urgency review the curriculum or implement the recent CCMAS if it meets the demand of the time.