Entrepreneurship Education And Acquisition Of Requisite Skills For Job Opportunities Among Business Education Students

Abstract

The effectiveness of entrepreneurship schooling is visible in its capacity so as to equip its recipient with important needful talents to cause them to be self-reliant and to lessen the manner many graduate’s quests for white collar process upon graduation. Therefore, this paper investigated the connection between entrepreneurship schooling and acquisition of requirements talents important for process possibilities amongst commercial enterprise schooling undergraduates in Niger delta University, Bayelsa State. The study consisted of all business education undergraduates in Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State. The sample size was made up of 300 undergraduate students. 100 students were selected from each of the three options in the department using simple random sampling technique. A self-designed instrument tagged “Entrepreneurship Education and Skills for Job Opportunities Questionnaire (EESJOQ) was used to collect data for the study. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to determine the reliability coefficient which stood at 0.68. The data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The two hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there was significant relationship between entrepreneurship education and acquisition of requisite skills for job opportunities among undergraduates. However, the findings also showed that there was no significant relationship between entrepreneurship education and willingness to establish enterprises among undergraduates; it was recommended that the Government should provide all necessary equipment and facilities in the tertiary institutions, in order to make the teaching of entrepreneurship education practical oriented in all Nigerian universities.