21st Century Skills Need and Business Education Students Attainment of Global Relevance in Nigeria

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The study was conducted to determine 21st Century Skills Need and Business Education Student's Attainment of Global Relevance in Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was used in the study. The population of the study comprised one hundred and sixteen (116) Business Education students (52 male and 64 female) in two (2) universities in Cross River State. The entire population was used because it was manageable, thus, there was no sample in the study. Skills Need and Business Education Students Attainment of Global Relevance Questionnaire (SNBESAGRQ) was used as instrument for data collection. The questionnaire consisted of two sections; A and B. Section A contained one item on demographic information of the respondents such male and female while Section B contained 20 items in respect to the two research questions and structured on a four-point rating scale of Highly Needed (HN) Needed (N) Not Needed (NN) and Highly Not Needed (HNN). The instrument was validated by two experts and tested for reliability using split-half analysis which produced a reliability coefficient of 0.94. The statistical tools that were used to analyses the data collected were mean, standard deviation and independent t-test. Mean and standard deviation of scores were used to answer the research questions. The mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the responses to the items in the questionnaire, while an independent t-test was used to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. Revealed that 21st century skills are needed by business education students for the attainment of global relevance in Nigeria. It was recommended that Students should learn and develop 21st century skills such digital marketing skills, technical skills, writing skills, financial management skills, social media skills, information management skills, artificial intelligence skills, and conflict resolution skills for the attainment of global relevance in Nigeria

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