Vocational and Technical Education Journal

The study investigated education policy implementation framework for sustainable achievement of Business Education objectives in tertiary institutions in Delta State, Nigeria. To achieve the broad objective, two research questions and two null hypotheses were developed to guide the study. Descriptive research design was adopted for carrying out the study. The population for the study was 124 Business education lecturers from five tertiary institution offering Business Education programmes in Delta State. Due to the manageable size, the entire population of 108 Business Education lecturers were used as respondents for the study; therefore, there was no sampling. A well-structured 28-item questionnaire was used for data collection. The questionnaire was structured into three sections. The instrument was face-validated by three Business Education lecturers. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach Alpha reliability technique which yielded a coefficient of 0.85. Out of the 124 questionnaire administered, 108 copies were retrieved and duly completed. The data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation for answering the research questions while t-test statistics was used for testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study identified 12 policy implementation frameworks and 16 elements for driving objectives of Business education policies in Nigerian tertiary institutions. There was significant (p<0.05) difference in the mean ratings of the responses of Business Education lecturers from university and colleges of education on policy implementation frameworks but no significant (p<0.05) different on elements for driving Business Education policies in tertiary institutions. The study among others recommended that government agencies in charge of education and parastatals should secure functional internal agreement with major stakeholders and implementers of education policies.

Open Full Text (PDF)