BUSINESS EDUCATION

Business Education is a specialized profession designed to provide students with knowledge, skills, and competence leading to employability and advancement in office occupations, pedagogical skills in teaching business subjects at different levels of the educational system, as well as self-employment or being an employer of labour. As an aspect of Vocational Education and Training, Business Education is designed to fill the gap between knowledge and practice by exposing students to General Education as well as specialized areas in Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Office Management.

Business Education programme is to provide individuals with relevant knowledge, skills and competencies to be self-reliant and economically self-sufficient for gainful employment, meaningful living, and to contribute to the development of the society. The programme is designed in consonance with the needs of the business community to ensure that education and training offered are consistent with the competencies for the present and emerging job requirements and opportunities.

The vision of Business Education  and Vocational Education department of Godfrey Okoye University is to produce professionally qualified graduate teachers with broad and balanced foundation in Business knowledge and practical skills, and who will teach business  courses in Secondary School, technical colleges and  Colleges of Education and Technology.

 

The mission of this programme is to transmit functional knowledge of Business courses concepts, principles and practical skills to the students who are preparing to teach Business courses or work in business establishment or establish their own businesses upon graduation.

 

 

Unique Features of Business Education Programme

1. Emphases are placed on civic and social learning development
2. Core practical and cognitive skills development for effective teaching of Business Education is intensified.
3. Financial literacy skills development has been up-scaled
4. The theoretical bases for entrepreneurial development is emphasized
5. Students are equipped with knowledge in career development and professional business ethics
6. Innovative and pragmatic skills that will enable students to operate and transact in a digital environment in both domestic and global marketing practices are developed
7. Emphasis is now placed on professional accounting courses that will expose Business Education students to industry requirements, thereby bridging the gap between knowledge and practice in the accounting profession.

Employability Skills

Business Education offers entrepreneurial/employability skills such as:

1. Leadership skills
2. Communication skills
3. Customer service skills
4. Financial literacy skills
5. Business analytical skills
6. Problem-solving skills
7. Teaching skills
8. Adaptability skills
9. Capacity building skills
10. Research skills

21st Century Skills

Business Education will allow its students to learn and develop 21stCentury skills that will enable them to fit into and take up contemporary business opportunities, employment opportunities and be self-employed or employers of labour. These skills include the following, among others:

1. Teamwork skills
2. Digital literacy skills
3. Creative and innovative skills
4. Information literacy skills
5. Media literacy skills
6. Digital citizenship skills
7. Flexibility skills
8. Critical thinking skills
9. Multitasking skills

PROGRAMMES OFFERED:

The programme offered degree in Business Education. (Accounting option and office Management and Technology option.)

Admission Requirements

In addition to general university requirements, applicants must meet the following requirements:

1. UTME

4-year programme – candidates must obtain 5 credit passes at GCE/WASC/NECO level, including English Language and Mathematics in not more than two sittings. In addition to an acceptable pass in the JAMB examination and post UME screening test.

 

2. DIRECT ENTRY

(i)        NCE with an overall merit pass or above, provided the candidate also has at least 5 credits or its equivalent, including English language and mathematics at O/levels.

(ii)      National Diploma (ND) in any area of education related to Business, provided the candidate also has at least 5 credit level passes at O/level, including English language and mathematics.

(iii)     Higher National Diploma (HND) in any area of education related to Business, provided the candidate also has at least 5 credit level passes at O/level, including English language and mathematics

Graduation Requirement

In addition to the general requirement for graduation at the university, students of Business Education  must  offer and  pass all courses outline in the course structure having a total of 142 credit hours.

Programme/Sub-Discipline/Discipline structure to include period of formal studies in the Universities, Industrial training, planned visit and project:

Students receive their Bachelor Science Education, B.Sc. (Ed.) Business Education degree after four (4) years of rigorous academic exercise that includes course work examinations and original research project. They have to pass all required courses. Students go on excursion, on teaching practice and students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SWIES).

 

Job Opportunities

Graduates of Business Education degree programme are prepared for careers as:

• Secondary School Teachers of Business studies courses
• Future Principles of Schools
• Supervisors/Inspectors in Ministry of Education and School Management Boards

4)   Advisers to the Governments on Education matters

5)   Educational Consultants

6)   Proprietors/Proprietresses of Schools

7)   Education Officers

8)   Workers in various ministries and establishments

9)   Research officers in Research Institutes

10) Board Members in Public and Private educational Institutions

11) Graduate Assistants with prospects of upward movement to lectureship positions in

       higher Institutions of learning

12) Marketers- Wholesaling and Retailing businesses.