PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND INDUSTRIES FOR DEVELOPING QUALITY ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS AMONG BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN DELTA STATE

Abstract

The study was designed to determine the nature of partnership between educational institutions and industries for developing quality entrepreneurial skills in business education students in Delta State. Two research questions were raised to guide the study while one null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The entire population of 103 business educators in tertiary institutions in Delta State was used for the study. Data were collected for the study through the administration of validated questionnaire on the respondents. Test-retest method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. The mean statistic was used to answer the research questions while z-test statistic was used to test the hypothesis. The result of this study revealed that the partnership between the educational institutions and industrial organizations in Delta State is weak. It was therefore recommended among others that industrial organizations should help educational institutions in producing highly skilled human power by making available funds, technical support and supply of instructional material such as computers to schools and that communication between industry and educational institution should be improved so that the industries would be more involved and committed in training of highly skilled workforce.