Availability of Teaching Facilities in Business Education Departments in Colleges of Education North-West Nigeria

Abstract

This research sets out to find the availability of teaching facilities in departments of business education in Colleges of Education North-West Nigeria. Business Education aims at skills acquisition to make graduates employable, self-employed and self-reliant or employer of labour. One research question and one null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study.  The population for the study consisted of all business education lecturers and students in Colleges of Education North-West Nigeria.  The proportionate stratified and purposive sampling techniques were employed to selected sample size of 432 respondents, made up of 345 students and 87 lecturers of business education in 13 Colleges of Education North-West Nigeria.  A structured questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection, which was face validated by three experts.  Cronbach Alpha Reliability Coefficient of 0.86 was obtained for the study.  It was found that teaching facilities in departments of business education in Colleges of Education North-West Nigeria were available to an average level.  It was therefore recommended that management of Colleges of Education in North-West Nigeria should ensure that teaching facilities are very much available in departments of business education.

Keywords: Availability, teaching facilities, Business Education, Colleges of Education.