Entrepreneurial Skills Required by Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice Trade Students in Technical Colleges in Kano State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study identified Entrepreneurial Skills Required by Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice Trade Students in Technical Colleges in Kano State. The study was guided by two research questions. Two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. A descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised of 44 entrepreneurs and 24 teachers making a total of 68 respondents. The entire population was used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was a 63 items structured questionnaire. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.79. Mean, Standard Deviation, and Grand Mean were used to answer research questions 1 & 2. While z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed among others that, technical colleges’ students of mechanical engineering craft practice trade require technical skills to operate various machines like; lathe, drilling, milling, shaping and band saw. All the hypotheses tested revealed that there is significant difference between the opinion of entrepreneurs and teachers on entrepreneurship skills required by mechanical engineering craft practice trade students in technical colleges in Kano state. Based on these findings the researchers recommend, among others, that; Entrepreneurship training should be given topmost priority. This would enable the students develop entrepreneurial technical skills and attitude necessary for gainful self or paid employment.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-27-08

Publication date:September 30^th 2019