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Profile of the Department of Business Administration and Management.

The Department Business Administration and Management is operating on the confers of School of Business and Financial Studies a National diploma programme (ND) aimed at producing diplomats with sound theoretical and practical knowledge to carry out a number of activities in a business concern effectively.

The Department ensures that an ND Diplomat should be able to:

  • Conduct a simple structured survey on any aspect of business and make appropriate recommendations to the authority.

  • Identify management problems at appropriate levels, analyze them and design management strategies to overcome them.

  • Carry our inspection and auditing of books and records.

  • Carry out evaluation of investment assets for investment purposes and assist in the analysis of investment proposals.

  • Interpret basic statistical data.

  • Assist in the preparation of short and long term budget plans.

  • Write business reports and carry out various types of business communication effectively. •Explain basic concepts and principles in economics and their applications in mixed economy. • Apply principles of accounts to different types of accounting transactions.

  • Use statistical inferences as aids to business plan and control.

  • Understand the basic principles of law and apply same to business relationship and transactions.

  • Explain various legal principles and procedures governing the regulations of companies as contained in company decree of 1968.

  • Apply mathematics and other quantitative techniques in management decision process. •Conduct product-planning surveys for manufacturing organizations.

  • Organize sales and distribution of materials.

  • Carry out market research and similar functions.

  • Carry out effective purchasing tasks and sales advertising.

  • Undertake proper storage and preservation of materials and goods.

  • Keep simple records of financial and other transaction in any organization.

  • Speak and write clear, correct and effective functional English.

  • Buy efficiently and wisely obtaining the best possible value for every Naira spent

  • Ensure continuity of supply both to the markets or production units.

 

General Entry Requirements National Diploma in Business Administration and Management (ND)

The general entry requirements for the ND progoramme are:

1.1 The WASC, GCE ‘O’ Level or the Senior Secondary Certificate (SSC) or their equivalent with four credits including English Language and Mathematics (Literature in English and Oral English are not acceptable in place of English Language) and two other subjects from economics, Business Methods, Principles of Accounts, Literature in English, Commerce, History, Statistics, Geography, Government, Agricultural Science/Biology.

1.2 A credit pass in N.B.T.E. recognized pre National Diploma Examination.

2.0 CURRICULUM

2.1 The department’s curriculum is structured in four semesters of classroom, studio/workshop activities in the institution and 3 to 4 month supervised industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) in a relevant industry. Each semester of institutional based activities shall be for a duration of 17 weeks distributed as follows: 15 contact weeks of teaching; i.e. recitation, practical exercises, quizzes, tests etc., and 2 weeks to be devoted for examination and registration.

2.2 The curriculum of the ND programme consists of four main components viz:

(i) General Studies courses

(ii) Foundation course

(iii) Professional course

(iv) Supervised Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES).

 

2.3 The General Education component includes courses in Social Sciences Studies/Mathematics/ English Language /Communication, Citizenship. Entrepreneurship. The General Education courses shall account for not more than 15% of the total contact hours for the programme.

2.4 Foundation Courses include Economics, Quantitative Techniques, Statistics, and Law etc. The number of hours for the foundation courses shall be between 10 – 15% of the total contact hours for the programmes.

2.5 Professional Courses are specialized core courses which give the student the theory and practical skills he needs to practice in his field of specialization at the technician/technological level.

2.6 Supervised Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) Tailor-made course outline are drawn up by the institution for the placement of students in relevant industry of a convenient period of the programme.

2.7 Final year (ND) Project. Final year ND students in this programme are expected to carry out individual project work (not term paper). This should be produced and bounded by the student.

 

3.0 Conditions for the award of the ND

3.1 The ND programme in Business Administration and Management is accredited by the NBTE. This simply means that the diplomats can be awarded the National Diploma certificates as soon as they graduate.

3.2 Institutions will award the National Diploma to candidates who successfully completed the programme after passing prescribed coursework, examination, diploma project and the supervised industrial work experience. Such candidates should have completed between 72-80 semester credit units as prescribed in the programme.

3.3 Diplomas shall be classified as follows:

Distinction – GPA of 3.50 and above

Upper Credit – GPA of 3.00 – 3.49

Lower Credit – GPA of 2.50 – 2.99

Pass – GPA of 2.00 – 2.49

Fail – GPA of below 2.00

3.4 Duration:It should be emphasized that the National Diploma (ND) programme is terminal and candidates graduating from the programme should be able to perform at that level. Each Diploma programme is expected to run for 4 semesters of 17 weeks, a candidate must take at least 15 credit units per semester while the maximum varies between 18 and 20.

5.0 Guidance notes for teachers teaching the programme

5.1 The new curriculum is drawn in unit courses. This is in keeping with the provisions of the National Policy on Education which stresses the need to introduce the semester credit units which will enable a student who so wishes to transfer the units already completed in an institution of similar standard from which he is transferring. To this end the department has seasoned lecturerswith key skills that include;

  • Excellent track record fostering, motivating and encouraging student leading.

  • Solid experience demonstrate good practice in developing modules.

  • Directing students in their dissertation project.

  • Setting, conducting, supervising, marking and preparing of students result.

  • Able to make significant contribution in encouraging students to start-up business enterprise.

  • Proactive team player, able to accept challenges, pressure and heavy workloads.

  • Computer skills, proficient use of MS word, excel and power point.

  • Excellent negotiation skills to identify and maximize opportunities and deliver results in high-pressured environments.

  • Good leadership and management skills to develop business initiatives whilst maximizing profit, minimizing cost and driving continues change.

5.2 In designing the units, the principle of the modular system by product has been adopted; thus making each of the professional modules, when completed provide the student with technician operative skills, which can be used for employment purposes.

5.3 As the success of the credit unit system depends on the articulation of programmes, in the institutions and industry, the curriculum content has been written in behavioral objectives, so that it is clear to all the expected performance of the student who successfully completed some of the courses or the diplomats of the programme. There is a slight departure in the presentation of the performance based curriculum which requires the conditions under which the performance are expected to be carried out and the criteria for the acceptable levels of performance. It is a deliberate attempt to involve the staff of the department teaching the programme in writing their own curriculum stating the conditions under which the performance can take place and to follow that with the criteria for determining an acceptable level of performance. Departmental submission on the final curriculum may be vetted by the Academic Board of the institution. Our aim is to continue to see to it that a solid internal evaluation system exists in each institution for ensuring minimum standard and quality of education in the programme offered throughout the polytechnic system.

6.0 POPULATION

6.1 Staff: The Department currently has four (4) lecturers, and a clerical officer which is in line with NBTE standard

6.2 Students:

The department have over two hundred (200) students for both ND1 and ND2 and has graduated two batches of students since inception in 2014.