TRAINING AND RETRAINING PROGRAMME AS A STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF BUSINESS EDUCATION LECTURERS IN PUBLIC TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

paper focused on training and retraining program as strategy for improving the quality of business education lecturers in public tertiary institutions in Anambra State. One research questions and one null hypothesis were tested at .05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design was adopted and 88 business education lecturers in public tertiary institutions in Anambra State were studied without sampling. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire containing 20 items in two clusters and validated by experts in the field of business education and measurement and evaluation. Trial testing was used to establish the reliability of the instrument and data was analayed using Cronbach alpha which yielded coefficients of 0.85 and 0.92 for clusters B1 to B2 respectively with an overall coefficient value of 0.89. Mean, standard deviation and t-test were used to analyze data collected. Findings revealed that respondents strongly agreed that training and retraining programme is a strategy for improving the quality of business education lecturers in tertiary institutions in Anambra State. Gender significantly influenced respondents’ mean ratings on training and retraining programmes as strategy for improving the quality of business education lecturers. The researchers recommended among others that; tertiary institution should regularly organize in-service training and retraining of lecturers in business education to improve their quality.