Human Resource Development and Supervision as Effective Strategies for Improving Business Education Curriculum in Colleges of Education for Employability of Graduates

Abstract

The study focused on human resource development and supervision as effective strategies for improving business education curriculum implementation in colleges of education in South-East Nigeria for employability of graduates. Two research questions guided the study while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance.  Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 320 business educators from colleges of education. The study utilized a validated four-point scale questionnaire with a reliability index of 0.74 and 0.87. The overall reliability test was 0.78 for data. The data collected were analyzed using arithmetic mean and standard deviation. The result from the study indicated that adequate human capital development and constant supervision were effective strategies for improving business education curriculum in colleges of education for employability of graduates. Based on the findings, the study recommended that there was need for proper training and retraining of business educators in colleges of education as well as constant supervision of instructions in colleges of education in Nigeria