EFFECTS OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND QUALITY ASSURANCE IN BUSINESS EDUCATION: FOCUS ON NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This paper examined Business Education and Quality Assurance in Business Education, new technologies in Business Education, technological changes, and challenges to Business Education on instruction and practice, constraints to new technologies and quality assurance.  Conclusion was drawn and workable recommendations, amongst which are only qualified business educators should be recruited to teach business education courses at all educational levels. The already recruited ones should as a matter of urgency go for retraining especially in the use of ICTs; obsolete technologies should give way to computers and other modern ICTs; computer laboratories should be properly networked for teachers and students to take full advantage of shared printer, shared logic/resources, and other resources; and teacher-student ratio of 1:30 should be maintained for quality delivery of practical courses.