IMPROVING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND-SET OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS FOR SELF-EMPLOYMENT AFTER GRADUATION IN ENUGU STATE

Abstract

This study empirically investigated on improving the entrepreneurial mind-set of Business Education students for self-employment after graduation in Enugu State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study to achieve the purpose of the study. The population consisted of 30 Business Educators and 90 final year Business Education students from two government owned universities offering Business Education. The entire 120 respondents was used; hence there will be no sampling. The instrument for data was a-20 item questionnaire titled: Improving the Entrepreneurial mind-set Questionnaire (IEMSQ) developed by the researchers. Three experts validated the instrument; while the reliability was done using coronach Alpha which yielded coefficient index of 0.77 indicating that the instrument was reliable. The research questions were answered using mean with standard deviation; while the null hypotheses were tested at 05 level of significance using t-test at appropriate degree of freedom. Findings from the study revealed that lecturers’ and institutional related strategies are keys to improving the entrepreneurial mindset of Business Education for self-employment after graduation in Enugu state. Again, there was no significant difference between lecturers and their students on institutional and lecturers’-related strategies on improving the entrepreneurial mind-set of Business Education students for self-employment after graduation in Enugu State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that Business Education students be given the opportunity to do  their Industrial Training (IT) programme in Entrepreneurship based offices to enable them update their entrepreneurial mind-set.