Global Employability Skills Required of Business Education Graduates in Delta State

Abstract

The study focused on global employability skills required of business education graduates in Delta State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study.The descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised 76 business educators in Federal Technical College Asaba and Delta University, Agbor. A questionnaire duly validated by experts was used for data collection. The mean statistics was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed the global employability skills are needed by business education graduates to be employable in the global world. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that curriculum of business education should be reviewed to embrace the global employability skills as identified in the study. Also, business educators should improve and update themselves to be in line with the global work expectations. This will as well help them to impact same to their students.