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The major thrust of technical and vocational education (TVE) worldwide is to address issues of youth unemployment, poverty and international competitiveness in skills development towards current and projected opportunities and challenges. The paper posits that despite the evidence of numerous reforms in vocational and technical education programs over the years, they still remain greatly detested by students and parents in Nigeria as evidenced in low enrolment when compared with sciences, engineering, banking and finance, and medicine just to mention but a few. This may be because of lack of understanding of the importance, scope and content of the program or lack of occupational information. Some wrongly view technical and vocational education programs as education for the handicapped or education for those who cannot cope with the sciences and social sciences. This paper therefore, examines the factors responsible for low enrolment into technical and vocational education programs, its implications for Nigeria and suggests how career education and effective occupational information service can help to stem this trend. It is recommended that career education should be used to create the necessary career awareness and occupation information made readily to students to enable them make informed career choices.

With advancement in information technology in the 21st century, e-learning has become an invaluable technology for teaching, learning and research in education. E-learning involves the use of technology to enhance learning including digital collaboration, satellite broadcasting, CD-ROMS amongst others. E-learning has so many advantages over the traditional method of teaching and learning. Besides, so many e-learning tools are available for teaching and learning. However, despite these numerous advantages, a careful look at Nigerian educational system shows that the use of e-learning is still rather slow or imaginary. One of the reasons for this may be due to ignorance, negative perceptions amongst students and teachers and; non-availability of e-learning facilities in the system. This paper critically examined the potentials and immense benefits of e-learning in education generally and business education in particular. The paper also looked into the Nigeria policy on information and communication technology (ICT) as it relates to education. It further presented various methods that may be employed in delivery business education lessons via e-learning. Recommendations were made that there should be awareness creation about the potentials and prospects of e-learning in Nigerian schools amongst others

The paper examined knowledge management as a strategy for mentoring business educators in Nigerian universities. The purpose of the study was to investigate how knowledge management could serve as a tool for mentoring business educators in Nigerian universities. This is because, knowledge management has become a catchphrase in most universities in recent times. This is occasioned by the evolving nature of institutional value from physical assets (tangible) to knowledge assets (intangible). Knowledge management has thus, taken a centre stage institution’s ability to remain both relevant and competitive in the global scheme of things. Organizational knowledge includes both tacit and explicit knowledge.Tacit is the one an individual possesses about a product, system, and process; while explicit knowledge is codified in manuals, databases and information systems.The challenge of many institutions is how to manage both tacit and explicit knowledge and make sure that they are shared to other colleagues who may see it useful both in the present and future job requirements. The implication of this is that the exit of the senior and experienced business educators due to retirements or other extraneous factors will not create loss of memory that may affect university effectiveness and productivity. Business educators in Nigerian universities therefore need to appreciate the indispensable nature of knowledge management and then develop a mechanism such as mentoring to tap into the collective intelligence, skills and expertise of senior and experienced staff in order to create a greater knowledge base. It is against this background that this paper examines problems plaguing Nigerian universities, knowledge management, ways universities can influence it, the need for knowledge management in Nigerian universities, mentoring in universities, benefits of mentoring and KM as a strategy for mentoring in Nigerian universities. They arrived at logical conclusions and offers key recommendations.