RESPONSIVENESS OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigated the responsiveness of the private sector to the development of Business Education programme in Nigeria. Three purposes, three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The descriptive survey design was used for the study. The population of the study consisted of all the 71Business Education lecturers in the seven universities in South-South Nigeria offering Business Education programme. The entire population was studies because of its size and manageability. An instrument tagged “Responsiveness of Private Sector to Development of Business Education programme Questionnaire” (RPSDBEPQ) with a four-point rating scale was used for data collection; an internal consistency reliability coefficient of 0.76 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha reliability technique. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, t-test to test null hypotheses 1 and 3, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to test null hypothesis 2 at .05 level of significance. The result revealed that private sectors’ responsiveness towards the development of Business Education programme in Nigeria is low. It is recommended, among others, that the government should encourage Public Private Partnership through provision of incentives and reliefs to the private sector to encourage their participation in the development of Business Education programme in Nigeria