Entrepreneurial Training Strategies Adopted by Lecturers in Developing Business Abilities in Nigeria University Students
- February 13, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Education, IJRISS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue I, January 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Dr. Angela Chekwube Ekoh-Nweke1, Prof. Mkpa Agu Mkpa2, Dr. Ijeoma Chimeruo Ezeabii3
1Department of Educational Management, (Business Education Programme), College of Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria
2Department of Curriculum and Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Abia State University Uturu, Nigeria
3Department of Business Education, Faculty of Education, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu State, Nigeria
Abstract: – Developing business abilities in university students has become an indispensable task due to growing unemployment among university graduates in Nigeria. This task cannot be appropriately addressed without university lecturers adopting entrepreneurial training strategies to develop business abilities in university students. Entrepreneurial training strategies include among others: the activity-based and university-industry collaboration approaches. This study sought to determine entrepreneurial training strategies adopted by lecturers in developing business abilities in Nigeria students. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The investigation adopted a descriptive survey design and the South East geopolitical zone was the area of the study. The subjects were 500 lecturers purposively selected 300 from the federal and 200 from state universities. Data were collected using a researcher made and validated questionnaire with a reliability index of 0.79. Data were collected using 5 research assistants. Means and standard deviations were used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses. Results showed that lecturers do not substantially adopt activity-based and university-industry collaboration entrepreneurial training strategies in developing business abilities in the Nigerian university students. Based on the findings, the following recommendation was proferred among others that university lecturers should adopt activity-based and university-industry collaboration entrepreneurial training strategies in developing business abilities in Nigeria university students, to enable them function appropriately in any business environment.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial training strategies, business abilities, University-industry collaboration.
I. INTRODUCTION
Education has remained a key factor in the development of human and material resources in every society. It provides the much needed manpower required for taping and utilizing the resources of a society, and it is relied on as the bedrock and tool for nation building. It is a factor that determines the state of prosperity, sustenance of welfare and security of the people. The yearnings, needs, aspirations as well as the cultural heritage and environment of any society determine to a large extent the kind of knowledge and skills to be acquired (Amadi & King, 2018).
