Re-Engineering the Business Education Programme in Universities for Enhanced Human Resources Development in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper reviewed business  education programme in  Nigeria Vis-a-Vis its role  in human resource development  and highlighted deficiencies in programme curricular and delivery changes needed in  remodeling  of the programme to enhance learning outcomes, in crease skill acquisition, meet  world’s standards and current  labour demands in business organizations were suggested. The paper recommended the use of hybrid e-learning  and traditional teaching process as appropriate for optimizing  programme delivery and learning  outcomes. It  further recommended that Nigerian government  should adopt a policy of massive retraining of teachers in E- learning /s e- teaching, provision of ICT  infrastructure and other equipment needed for  proper teaching of business education in secondary schools and tertiary institutions.

Keywords: Business education , Human resources  development, ICT.