The Influence of Entrepreneurship Education on Students ‘Business Venturing in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria.

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VI, June 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

The Influence of Entrepreneurship Education on Students ‘Business Venturing in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria.

Nwachukwu, Precious Ikechukwu¹, Obisanma, Olatunde. A², Kuromiema, Minabere. I³, Potopregha Maurice⁴, Obatola, A. Toyin^5
1Lecturer, Department of Petroleum Marketing and Business Studies, Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas Bonny, Rivers State, Nigeria.
²,³,⁴Department of management, Ignatius Ajuru university of Education Rumuolumini, Port Harcourt, Rivers state
⁵Technologist, Department of Computer Science, Federal Polytechnic of Oil and Gas Bonny, Rivers State, Nigeria.

Abstract: Entrepreneurship education is considered a vital tool in empowering graduate for self-reliance in creating job opportunity in the economy given the rate of graduate unemployment in the country. The objective of this study is to examine the influence of entrepreneurship education on student’s business venturing. The study used a well structured questionnaire to obtain data from 315 respondents from different tertiary institution in the country. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 23.0 was utilized for data analysis. Findings from the study disclosed that Entrepreneurship education have been found to have a significant positive influence on students’ intention to venture into business. Thus, that effective entrepreneurship education which is student oriented and which give room for students to practice and start little businesses while in school, has the capacity to arouse and increase students ‘career considerations into entrepreneurship after graduation. It was recommended among others that there should be a strong partnership between the government and private bodies on student’s attachment to firms for both mentorship and guidance especially after graduation so as to encourage and motivate them to develop businesses.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Education, Business Venturing

I.BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

For years now the concept of entrepreneurship have caught the attention of different stakeholders as a result of globalization and constant increase in both social and economic challenges particularly in unemployment (Garcia Rodriguez, 2017). Furthermore, arising from the fourth industrial revolution there is the need for vital competencies such as agility, creativity, persistency, innovation etc to start-up business and this could most be acquired through entrepreneurial education or program(Kim et al 2017).Consequently,

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