INFLUENCE OF MODEL OFFICE AND STUDIO ON SKILLS ACQUISITION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1         Background to the Study

Business studies refers to those business subjects taught at the secondary school level such as book-keeping, keyboarding, shorthand, general subjects-equal with education for entrance into business word given at any educational level.

Business studies at the postgraduate level are referred as business education. These include Accountancy, marketing, Business Administration, OTM and Business Teacher education. This certainly tells us that business education is an incredibly adaptable area which has related aims and objectives.

There are some formal definitions of business education for instanceBusinesseducationweb.com (2015) stated that; Business education could simply mean an educational process or context which has as its primary aim preparation of people for roles enterprises such roles could be as employee, entrepreneur, and an employer or simply as self-employed.

Stillonthedefinition                              ofbusinesseducation,Njoku                             (1997)defines

business education as that facet of educational training that helps the individual to acquire relevant skills needed for living. On the other hand, Osuala (1981) described business education a ―systematic learning experiences which are designed to fit individuals for gainful employment in recognizedoccupations, prepares students for entering into and advancement in jobs.Business education prepares students to handle their own business affairs and to function intelligently asconsumers and as citizens ina business community.Aliyu (2001) defined business education as an education programme, which involves acquisition of skills, competences and knowledge, which makes the recipients proficient in the area of study, which always being understood, literate and illiterates. It is an umbrella under which all business courses take over.It is obvious that business education comprise almost all the knowledge which hold prospect of profitable exploration in the context of a business enterprise such knowledge could simply be administrative or even extent to the realm of the humanities it can then be the include that business education prepares people for four dissimilar roles in enterprises.

INFLUENCE OF MODEL OFFICE AND STUDIO ON SKILLS ACQUISITION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA