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Entrepreneurship education and small-scale business development among students of College of Education, Warri, Delta State, Nigeria |
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Akarue O. Blessing* and Eyovwunu Dafe |
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Department of
Agricultural Science Education, College of Education, Warri Accepted September 04, 2014 |
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Abstract |
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Entrepreneurship
education has been introduce into the Nigeria educational system
to help provide the necessary skills ,competences, and
understanding to help prepare the Nigerian graduate to be self
reliant and help in developing the nation. This paper examines
entrepreneurship education and small-scale business development
among students of college of education, warri, Delta state,
Nigeria. Data was obtained through self-administered
questionnaire. Simple frequencies, mean, percentage, t-test and
correlation analysis was employed to analyse the study. The
result indicates that the respondents believes entrepreneurial
education is a good policy and it has come to stay, they see it
as a possible solution to the problem of high level
unemployment, through self employment and job creation, source
of revenue to government; will promote industrialization,
innovation and technology. The findings also revealed a
significantly positive between entrepreneurship education
perception and age and programme. Furthermore, some perceived
challenges to entrepreneurship education includes- Poor funding
Inadequacy of competent lecturers in the field of
entrepreneurship, Ineffective style of teaching that stresses
theory instead of practical’s, amongst other. Recommendation
such as better funding of tertiary institution to carry out
entrepreneurship training and making entrepreneurship education
compulsory at all level should be encouraged. |
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