Impact of Entrepreneurship, Vocational and Technical Education on NCE Graduating Students to be Self-employed in Some Selected COE in the North East, Nigeria

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