The stimulation of the BTS Students Entrepreneurial Mindset through Entrepreneurial Education — Case of BTS students at the Lycée El Kindy in Casablanca, Morocco

Abstract

Our study focuses on the effect of entrepreneurship education on the development of entrepreneurial Mindset among students in the Brevet Technician Specialize (BTS) at the Lycée El Kindy in the provincial directorate of Hay Hassani, Regional Academy of Education and Training of Casablanca -Settat (AREFC-S). Our choice of BTS students comes from the fact that they are high school graduates who opt for a specialised higher education in fields related to business management, outside of academic institutions. Our aim is to study the development of the entrepreneurial mindset through entrepreneurship education among these students. In order to do so, and after a diversified bibliographical study in relation to our subject, we opted for a field study by carrying out two surveys, spaced out by one year, on the same students. - Our first survey is conducted in February 2022 on a sample of 50% of the total number of students in the first year of study at the BTS; - Our second survey is carried out in February 2023 on the total number of these same students who are in their second year of study at the BTS. The results of our surveys showed that the more students receive entrepreneurial training and participate in business-related seminars, the more entrepreneurial spirit among BTS students increases. This explains why students in the second year of study at the BTS have a higher intention to become entrepreneurs or business managers.