ASSESSMENT OF EMPLOYABILITY DEVELOPMENT SKILLS OF NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL BUSINESS STUDIES CURRICULUM
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Date
2019
Authors
ATOLAGBE, Adedapo Adetiba
UMARU, Haliru Alhaji
OLUWALOLA, Felicia Kikelomo
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Nigerian Journal of Business Education (NIGJBED)
Abstract
Employability has been a thorny issue in the Nigerian education landscape. Many graduates at
various school levels are faced with difficulty of securing jobs after graduating. Opinions differ as
to reasons why school leavers are experiencing this hardship. Many blame the students for
preparing poorly for work life, while many others lay the blame at the schools doorstep.In recent
times however, attention is shifting away from the inadequacies of students and schools to issues
bordering on the relevance and adequacy of curriculum contents in school. Employers of labour
are looking beyond graduates with good examination results to those who can work independent
of much supervision. The question is, do our subject curriculums contains skills that can make
graduates work on his/her own independently? The study identified eight employability soft skills
that promotes employability and assessed the level at which Business Studies curriculum promotes
them. A researcher designed employability skills assessment questionnaire was administered to
students and teachers of Business Studies. Both teachers and students admitted that the Business
Studies curriculum contain enough content that can promote all the eight identified employability
skill, they concluded that a significant relationship exist between acquiring those skills from
Business Studies curriculum and getting employment after graduation from secondary school
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Soft skills, employability, Team work skills, Problem solving skills