The increasing occurrences of youth unemployment and the associated vices led to the introduction of Marketing Trade subject, and other trade/entrepreneurship subjects, at senior secondary schools in Nigeria. Therefore, this study was carried out to assess the instructional strategies and students’ entrepreneurship empowerment through the acquisition of competences in Marketing Trade subject. The study raised and answered two related research questions and also formulated and tested one relevant research on the null hypothesis (H0). The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised 1367 students of Marketing Trade subject in the randomly selected public senior secondary schools under Education District IV of Lagos State, Nigeria. Using Taro Yamane’s sample size calculation method, the sample size was 309 respondents, but 308 was returned eventually. The research instrument used was structured questionnaire. The Cronbach Alpha c.....

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The prevalence of social, economic and environmental issues and problems around the world seems to surpass what the traditional entrepreneurship education could handle. Hence, the emergence of social entrepreneurship education as a complement to the traditional entrepreneurship education and empowerment for achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs 2030). Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the social entrepreneurship awareness and orientation of Business Education students in tertiary institutions to ensure their empowerment for realizing the Sustainable Development of the Nigerian economy. The study raised and answered two related research questions and also formulated and tested three relevant research hypotheses. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all final-year Business Education students in public universities and public colleges of education in Lagos State, Nigeria. The sample size for th.....

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The prevailing occurrences of youth and graduates unemployment in Nigeria and the need to eradicate the associated crises through empowerment for sustainability necessitated this study. The study aimed to assess the Business Education undergraduate curriculum for students’ empowerment and sustainability of the Nigerian economy. The study answered two research questions and tested two hypotheses. The descriptive survey research design and mixed-methods approach were employed. The sample size of the study consisted of 727 penultimate and final-year undergraduate students of Business Education and 25 lecturers in South-West, Nigeria. The research instruments used were questionnaires and focus group discussion schedule. An average index of 0.89 was determined for the internal consistency of the research instruments using Cronbach Alpha scale reliability. The research questions and hypotheses were analyzed using Mean, Bar-graph, Independent Sampled T-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), an.....

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