<![CDATA[Business Educators in Colleges of Education are saddled with tripartite mandate for the successful realization of the institutional goals. However, there has been much emphasis on their inability to teach as they ought to, disseminate research findings through publications and non-participation in community service. It is against this backdrop that this study investigated training opportunities as predictor of business educators’ job performance in public Colleges of Education, Kwara State, Nigeria. The study specifically examined the level of training opportunities as predictors of business educators’ job performance. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 53 Business Educators and quality assurance committee members from the three public colleges of education in the study area. Census sampling technique was adopted in this study. A structured questionnaire containing 20 items was used to elicit responses from the respondents and generated data for the study. The instrument was both face and content validated by three experts. The study made use of Cronbach Alpha and a reliability coefficient of 0.94 was obtained. The data collected for the study were analyzed using mean to answer the research questions raised and standard deviation to determine the closeness or otherwise of the responses from the mean. The study discovered that business educators will perform optimally if they are appropriately exposed to training opportunities and that neglect of business educators’ capacity building will have some negative impacts on their job performance and successful attainment of institutional goals for overall national education development (Mean=3.41; Mean=3.52). The study concluded that all hands must be on deck to ensure that business educators’ training opportunities is handled with seriousness by all stakeholders so that educational goals are realized. The study among others recommended that Management of colleges of education should continue to intensify its efforts in providing training opportunities for business educators by organizing seminars, workshops and conferences]]>
