ENTREPRENEURSHIP IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ JOB CREATION PLANS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

Ifeanyichukwu Emmanuel Nwabueze,Jerome Anyanwu

doi:10.46827/ejes.v8i12.4129

Ifeanyichukwu Emmanuel Nwabueze, Jerome Anyanwu

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https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v8i12.4129

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Abstract

This study examined entrepreneurship implementation strategies and university students’ job creation plans in Rivers State. Two research questions and two corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. The theoretical position was anchored on the: Structural Functional” theory propounded by Gabriel Almond in (1965). This study adopted a descriptive survey design with a population of all the (3) three universities in Rivers State. A stratified random sampling technique was used to draw a sample size of 259 university lecturers representing 10% of the entire population. A 27 items self-designed questionnaire tagged: Entrepreneurship Implementation Strategies and University Students’ Job Creation Plans Questionnaire (EISUSJCPQ)” was used for data collection. Test-retest technique was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which yielded a coefficient index of 0.84 using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) which is high, reliable and adequate for the study. The findings revealed inter alia: Provision of practical skills for job creation, provision of functional knowledge for self-reliance, training of university students for job creation plans and engaging university students for research work are the ways functional curriculum and entrepreneurship programme centres implementation strategies enhance university students job creation plans in Rivers State. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government and other stakeholders in education should establish entrepreneurial programme centres where students should exhibit financial skills, business skills, public relations skills and competencies to start a business. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0944/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

Highlights

It is a common experience that about 80% of the graduates from Nigerian universities generally and Rivers State in particular find it very difficult to get employment every year
According to Munyanyiwa (2015), the global economic crises as well as domestic political and economic developments have resulted in low levels of industrialization and high employment the need for entrepreneurship education in universities which traditionally churned out graduates for the job market rather than for employment creation
Hol: There is no significant difference between the mean scores of male and female lecturers on the ways functional curriculum implementation strategy enhances university students’ job creation plans in Rivers State

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Introduction

It is a common experience that about 80% of the graduates from Nigerian universities generally and Rivers State in particular find it very difficult to get employment every year. This is due to the curricula of the universities and other tertiary institutions, which lay emphasis on training for white collar jobs (Amuseghan & Tayo, 2009). The importance of entrepreneurship implementation strategies, knowledge and skills in graduates as echoed by Teshome (2014) who argued that modem day universities are under pressure to produce graduates with the ability to take advantage of opportunities and come up with their own job creation plans as a means of mediating the challenge of unemployment. The above is supported by Basu and Virick (2008) who argued that due to the perceived critical importance of entrepreneurship in curbing unemployment and most importantly in the socio-economic development of nations, universities are tasked with the unenviable responsibility of introducing entrepreneurship curricula as a mitigating measure

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