Empowering business education graduates through entrepreneurship education

Abstract

The researchers empirically investigated empowering business education graduates through entrepreneurship education in Nigeria. Accordingly, the researchers raised two (2) research questions and one hypothesis. A survey design was used in the study. 610 business education students from two government owned colleges of education in Enugu state formed the population of the study out of which a sample size of 162 students was selected using simple random sampling technique. The instrument was validated by three experts and was trial-tested, obtaining reliability co-efficient of .78. The instrument was administered directly to the respondents by the researchers and their research assistants. Both descriptive and inferential statistics tools were used in analysing the data. The findings revealed that entrepreneurship education have relevance in entrepreneurship. It also revealed that skills and entrepreneurship education have influence on economic development, and that there was no significant difference between the perception of male and female business students on the relevance of entrepreneurship education. One of the recommendations was that government should provide loans and other advances to help provide the initial capital with which a beneficiary can have a good take-off.