The perception of students towards entrepreneurship courses: an empirical study of Nigerian polytechnics students
The teaching of entrepreneurship in polytechnics can give students the basic skills, knowledge and attitude to start their own businesses after graduation. This study investigates the Nigerian students’ perception and their inclinations towards entrepreneurship courses in the Nigerian polytechnics....
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5172/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/5172/1/The_Perception_of_Students_Towards_Entrepreneurship.pdf |
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| Summary: | The teaching of entrepreneurship in polytechnics can give students the basic skills,
knowledge and attitude to start their own businesses after graduation. This study investigates
the Nigerian students’ perception and their inclinations towards entrepreneurship courses in
the Nigerian polytechnics. The main focus of the paper is to analyse and evaluate the
relationship between entrepreneurship education and Nigerian polytechnics students’
perception towards the entrepreneurship education courses. The introduction of
entrepreneurship education as compulsory course in the Nigerian polytechnics is seen as a
strong measure to address the problem of polytechnics graduate unemployment and
encourage new start-up. A descriptive study was conducted in three Nigerian polytechnics. A
total of 700 questionnaires were administered and 370 were returned. The questionnaires
were designed to analyse students’ perception and inclinations. Based on the data collected
and analysed, it was discovered that two variables were found to have significant relationship
with entrepreneurship education. However, it was also gathered from the study that there are
various challenges facing entrepreneurship like inadequate funding, very few trained
entrepreneurship lecturers and lack of enabling environment as some of the reasons for low
entrepreneurial activities in our institutions. The paper concludes by making
recommendations on how to improve entrepreneurship education courses in order to achieve
the desired objectives of the programs. |
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