Entrepreneurship Education and Its Impact on Self-Employment Intention and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy

Abstract

Government seeking economic growth, and realising the threats as well as the immerse benefits of globalisation are putting premium on entrepreneurship education. This study investigates the influence of entrepreneurship education as an exogenous factor that may shape an individual's cognitive process of self-employment intention. The results should help ascertain whether participation in entrepreneurship education positively influences students' perceptions of self-employment and hence self-employment intentions. A quasi experimental study was conducted among students of Cape Coast Polytechnic. The survey questionnaire developed for this study utilised validated scales and the hypotheses were tested using a pretest- posttest non equivalent control group design. The results suggest that participation in entrepreneurship education positively influences students' perception of self-employment and hence self-employment intentions. However, additional research is required to determine if participation in entrepreneurship education results in long term changes in self-employment intentions.