PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF GENERIC GREEN SKILLS ON BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS SELF-RELIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This study examined perceived influence of generic green skills on business education students’ self-reliance for sustainable development in Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State. Descriptive research design of survey type was used. A total of 147 lecturers and students of Business Education Department, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State participated in the study. Researchers developed questionnaire using Generic Green Skills and Self-Reliance Questionnaire (GGSSRQ) with reliability coefficient 0.91 was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used for analyzing research questions. The findings revealed that design, waste management, communication, financial, leadership, energy and city planning skills were among the needed generic green skills by business education students. Inadequate teaching and learning facilities, lack of entrepreneurship village, inadequate finance and poor nature of infrastructure were among the challenges faced by lecturers in delivering generic green skills to business education students. The study recommends among other things that business education students should be given generic green skill training in addition to their regular academic programme in the crucial sector as being demanded by the industry, as a remedy to the mis-match between educational output and requirements of the labour market in order to enhance the employability of students passing out of school and to be self-reliance.