Students? Perception on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education in Producing Self-Reliant Graduates in Anambra State

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@article{1704911,
      author = {Iheikhena Wilson Osagie, Ugwu Laeticia U., Bashiru Lukuman},
      title = {Students? Perception on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education in Producing Self-Reliant Graduates in Anambra State},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2023},
      volume = {7},
      number = {1},
      pages = {546-557},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/17049111.pdf},
      abstract = {The study investigated students? perception on the challenges of entrepreneurship education in producing self-reliant graduates in Anambra State. Four purpose and research questions guided the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted. The total population of the study comprised of 1,483-degree science students in the two degree awarding universities in Anambra State. 360 science students were sampled using stratified sampling techniques. 220 science students were used for Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and 140 science students were used Anambra State University, Igbariam. Copies of questionnaire were administered to the respondents by the researchers. Data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the formulated hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The benchmark for the acceptance value is 2.50 and above any item with the mean of 2.50 and above is accepted while the items with the means of 2.49 and below are not accepted. The findings of the study revealed that there are some entrepreneurial competencies needed for producing self- reliant graduates which are business management, communication, financial management, time management, creative thinking, entrepreneur training and also there are some problems that affect the effective teaching and learning of entrepreneurship studies, which include lack of interest in the course, negative attitude of students towards entrepreneur, poor attendance of students to lecture, inadequate facilities and equipment, inadequate exposure of students to practical work and insufficient time allocated to entrepreneurship studies. Finally, the study recommended that entrepreneurship studies should be introduced at both primary and secondary education level so that a solid foundation would be laid at lower level before tertiary education, government should increase the budget for entrepreneurship education to allow the provision of necessary equipment for teaching in this area and also the students should involve themselves in some entrepreneurial training and skills. In conclusion, it is hoped that government, society and school administrators and lecturers will look into the identified problems with the view to adopting remedies/solutions suggested.},
      month = {July},
  }