BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS

This presents study which is hinged on assessing the digital marketingskillsrequired by business education student for economic survival after graduationwasnecessitated by the reoccurring situations of unemployment among youths (graduate) aswell as the global economic demands for more digital skills especially that whichisrelevant to the business space. Six research questions guided the study and twonull hypotheses were tested to achieve the objectives of this study. Descriptive surveyresearch design was adopted. The population of the study encompass all businesseducation students in the University of Benin. A total of 88 students were sampled. A4-point likert scale questionnaire containing 15 items were validated by experts, whichwasfurther used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyse datatoanswer the research questions and determine the homogeneity or otherwise of therespondents views while the t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05level ofsignificance. Findings indicate that digital marketing skills required by businesseducation students for survival in the current economy landscape includes; content creating skills, data analysis skills, risk management, email marketing and social mediamarketing, and the students showed high extent of awareness to the relevance of thisskills in the business space, also there is no significant difference between the level ofawareness among male and female business education students. Based on the findings, it was concluded that it was concluded that Digital skills are important becausetheyunderpin so much of how modern business is conducted. It can be thus be saidthat thefuture of Business Education depend to a large extent on the digital skill acquired.

This study examined study habit and its influence on the academic performance of students offering accounting courses in university of Benin. The study employed a descriptive research survey type. The population of the study comprises of 500 Business Education Students of the Department of Vocational and Technical Education, university of Benin. Simple random sampling was used to select 200 accounting education students as sample for the study. The research instrument was named “Study Habits and Academic Performance Questionnaire (SHAPQ)” Data collected were analyzed using simple percentage for the research questions. The descriptive analysis revealed that study habit has strong significant influence on the academic performance of students offering accounting courses in university of Benin. The outcome of this study would be of immense help to undergraduates, help to improve their study habit skills and in turn facilitate student’s performance. Improvement in students academic
performance will therefore lead to national development as qualitative manpower will be produced. Also, the school, government and all stakeholders should make facilities and materials that facilitate studying available to students.

This study examined study habit and its influence on the academic performance of students offering accounting courses in university of Benin. The study employed a descriptive research survey type. The population of the study comprises of 500 Business Education Students of the Department of Vocational and Technical Education, university of Benin. Simple random sampling was used to select 200 accounting education students as sample for the study. The research instrument was named “Study Habits and Academic Performance Questionnaire (SHAPQ)” Data collected were analyzed using simple percentage for the research questions. The descriptive analysis revealed that study habit has strong significant influence on the academic performance of students offering accounting courses in university of Benin. The outcome of this study would be of immense help to undergraduates, help to improve their study habit skills and in turn facilitate student’s performance. Improvement in students academic
performance will therefore lead to national development as qualitative manpower will be produced. Also, the school, government and all stakeholders should make facilities and materials that facilitate studying available to students.

This study aimed at determining the Factors militating against Effective Teaching and Learning of Accounting among Business Education students, University of Benin, Benin City. Five research purpose and questions were drafted to guide the study. In the process of carrying at this study, work of various scholars and authors were reviewed. A descriptive survey was adopted for study design. A total number of 381 accounting education students in the department of Vocational and Technical Education students formed the population of study while 100 respondents randomly selected formed the sample size. Questionnaire was used as research Instrument. The validity of the instrument was established by the project supervisor and two (2) other lecturers in the department. A reliability coefficient of .768 was used for the study which was gotten using Cranach alpha method. The data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. A mean of 2.50 was used as a benchmark for accepting the responses to the items formulated under each research question. The study reveals that to a large extent, lack of use of instructional materials, shortage of time allocated to teaching accounting and writing of examinations, negative attitude and perception of students towards accounting, poor condition of learning environment as well as how competent available learning materials such as accounting textbook militate against effective teaching and learning of accounting among business education students. Therefore, it was recommended that efforts should be made by government, school administrators, students and other stakeholders in addressing the above problems by providing adequate and relevant instructional materials for teaching and learning of accounting, allocating more time both for teaching and learning as well as for examination of students, provision of more equipped and conducive teaching and learning environment, regular review of available accounting textbooks and changes in students’ negative attitude towards accounting

The study was to investigate the impact of the language laboratory on effective teaching and learning of the English language. Four (4) research questions were raised and literature of other researchers were reviewed. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design, data was collected through the aid of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was structured according to the research questions and distributed to sample population of 63 respondents. The findings of the study revealed that secondary schools do not have adequate English laboratories for the effective teaching and learning of English language and lack the
basic necessities needed for a good English laboratory with no adequate English laboratories for the effective teaching and learning of English language in secondary schools. Schools with adequate English laboratories are more effective in the teaching
and learning of English language although many schools have limited facilities for a good English laboratory and so need to be upgraded to meet with international standards. It was however recommended that government should ensure that adequate funds is released to public secondary schools for the building of language laboratories needed for the teaching of student; government and schools should ensure that qualified and competent teachers are employed for the teaching of Oral English in secondary schools in Ikpoba Okgha LGA; and that school management should ensure that language laboratories are adequately utilized for the correction of other tongue interference in secondary schools in Benin City