Abstract
Entrepreneur education was introduced into higher institutions curriculum to expose students to various trades that students will be willing to engage after graduation to reduce unemployment to a bearable rate in the country. It’s on this premise that this research is set to assess the Impact of Entrepreneurship and Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) on NCE Graduating students to be self-employed in three selected Colleges of Education in the North East, consisting of Aminu Saleh College of Education Azare Bauchi state, Federal College of Education (technical) Potiskum, Yobe State and Federal College of Education (technical) Gombe, Gombe State. The objectives of the study being to; assess whether entrepreneurship and VTE education has equipped graduating students with needed business skills that would make them self-employed and Whether the personality traits of graduating students have impact on their willing to become self-employed. Based on this, research questions and hypotheses were formulated. The population of the study comprises NCE graduating students of the three teacher training institutions in the north eastern part of the Nigeria. The methodology employed is survey design where copies of self – administered questionnaires with five points Likard scale was administered to the graduating students through combine simple and stratified random technique. Descriptive statistics: simple percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions raised, while chi-square statistics was used to test the two hypotheses formulated. The findings of the study shows that, NCE graduating students believes that entrepreneurship education and VTE courses equipped the graduated students of School of VTE with needed business skills that would make them self-employed and, Students’ personality traits have a clear association on the present employment status of graduating students. It was recommended among others that Government at State and Federal level should come up with programs that would provide practical training to graduating students to argument the theory leant in the class and provide them with resources (financial and/or otherwise) to enhance their skills in planning, starting and managing a small business under a close supervision. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, education Vocational, Self-employed, Graduating DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/11-30-06 Publication date :October 31 st 2019
Highlights
The introduction of entrepreneurship education as a compulsory course in all Nigerians tertiary institutions is aimed at exposing/empowering youth graduates to entrepreneurial skills that would make them self-reliance and employer of labour to stimulate Nigerian economy (Chuma, Pearl & Chizoba 2013, Kostoglou & siakas, 2012)
Looking at the poor nature of north east region, and devastation course by the activities of insurgents, this informed the researchers to examine the entrepreneurship education provided in the teacher training institutions where the majority of the people hit by insurgency took refuge
3.0 Methodology 3.1 Research Design The methodological approach employed in this study is survey design on NCE graduating students of Vocational and Technical Education, of Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare Bauchi State, Federal College of Education (Technical) Potiskum and Federal College of Education (Technical) Gombe.in the North East Zone, Nigeria
Summary
The introduction of entrepreneurship education as a compulsory course in all Nigerians tertiary institutions is aimed at exposing/empowering youth graduates to entrepreneurial skills that would make them self-reliance and employer of labour to stimulate Nigerian economy (Chuma, Pearl & Chizoba 2013, Kostoglou & siakas, 2012). Article 64(c) of the same section indicates that Universities education shall contribute to: making all students, as part of a general program of all-round improvement in University education, to offer general study courses such as history of ideas, philosophy of knowledge and nationalism This provision demands the strengthening of entrepreneurship education curriculum in the tertiary institutions. In the recent years stakeholders in education have gear interest toward entrepreneurship policy and economic strategies that made graduating students self-employed thereby reducing unemployment to bearable rate Both academic and public authorities view entrepreneurship as a contributor to economic development would achieve the objectives of industrialization and sustainable economic development in the region and the nation at large (Hytti & Kuopusjorvi, 2004 cited by Dabale & Masese, 2014)
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