GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

This study examined strategies that could have desirable outcomes from Students’ Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) with the hope to opening a new vista that ensures education beyond literacy and numeracy among business education graduates. In achieving this, variables such as job shadowing, funding and school-based enterprise were used to carry out the study. Three research questions and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The design of the study was descriptive design and the area of the study was Akwa Ibom and Cross River States, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised1500 graduates of Business Education graduates and a simple random sampling technique was used to select 146 respondents as sample. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The internal consistency index of .76 was obtained using Cronbach’s Alpha formula. A total of 146 copies of the instrument were correctly filled and returned for analysis. The data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions and one sample t-test to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. It was identified that job shadowing, funding and school-based enterprise were all significantly high for ensuring education beyond literacy and numeracy among Business Education graduates. Recommendations made among others is that Regulatory bodies like National University Commission (NUC) and National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) should make it a condition for granting accreditation to programmes (like Business Education) to have School-Based Enterprise Classroom resources or school based enterprise academy that will help bost the career development of graduating students from the business education programme.