Current State of Entrepreneurship Education Towards Breeding Entrepreneurial Attitudes Among Vocational and Technical Students in Colleges of Education

Abstract

The study was designed to explore the existing state of entrepreneurship education taught at colleges of education Nigeria towards enhancing entrepreneurial attitudes among vocational and technical students. A survey research design was used to collect the data from a randomly selected sample of 432 final year students across six colleges of education in the north-eastern Nigeria. The study used multivariate method of data analysis via SPSS version 22.0 to analyse the data obtained from the sample and to test the hypotheses in the model. The authors used cross sessional data to test the hypotheses on impact of entrepreneurship education on the students’ entrepreneurial attitude. The study established a significant positive relationship between entrepreneurship education and students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy for self-employment. Furthermore, the study established that entrepreneurship education has significant influence on students’ entrepreneurial intention. The study contributes a lot by providing valuable insights to various stakeholders in the field of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial career development such as educational institutions, curriculum developers, entrepreneurship educators, and policy makers.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial intention.