TEACHING AS FUTURE PROFESSION - EXPLORING BUSINESS STUDENTS ATTITUDES TOWARD TEACHING PROFESSION

Amongst all professions, teaching profession has always been a most challenging profession due to the fact that it has the power and capacity to seed any nation with educated citizens. The attitude of these young students towards selection of teaching as a career is very important for the researchers and the future policy makers of any society. On this background this study was initiated to assess the dynamics of business student's attitudes towards the selection of teaching as their future career. Simple random sampling technique was used while selecting the sample of 300 students. A self constructed questionnaire was administered to the sample students. The research finding revealed that majority of the business students (64%) exhibited unfavorable attitude towards teaching as their future career. Female students demonstrated more positive attitude than male students similarly the students of public sector institution showed a favorable attitude than students of private institutions.