Vocational and Technical Education Journal

This study aimed at exploring innovative implementation measures that can be taken in order to make business education curriculum relevant for the modern day economy. Specifically, the study aimed at examining the modern day needs of the business education graduate, ascertaining the skill gaps that exist amongst business education graduates and interventions that can be carried out in order to bridge these skill gaps. A total of 380 respondents, made up of business education postgraduate students drawn from different tertiary institutions in South East Nigeria were used for this study. Structured questionnaires, validated by three business education experts from the University of Nigeria of Nigeria. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20 was used for data analysis, with Cronbach Alpha used for testing reliability. The findings from the study showed that the use of teacher-centred form of learning, lack of use of presents-day business case studies, teaching of obsolete topics and concentration on lower cognitive levels in teaching and evaluation pose significant challenges militating against business education in Nigeria from being relevant for the modern day knowledge economy. The study thus recommended that learner-centred mode of teaching be applied in teaching business education in tertiary institutions and also evaluation of higher cognitive levels to be implemented in order to improve student interest, improve instruction delivery and make the subject more relevant to modern day realities.

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