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The perception of students towards entrepreneurship courses: an empirical study of Nigerian polytechnics students

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Lame, Sulaiman Mohammed Yusoff, Wan Fauziah Wan
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The teaching of entrepreneurship in polytechnics can give students the basic skills, knowledge and attitude to start their own businesses after graduation. This study investigates the Nigerian students’ perception and their inclinations towards entrepreneurship courses in the Nigerian polytechnics. The main focus of the paper is to analyse and evaluate the relationship between entrepreneurship education and Nigerian polytechnics students’ perception towards the entrepreneurship education courses. The introduction of entrepreneurship education as compulsory course in the Nigerian polytechnics is seen as a strong measure to address the problem of polytechnics graduate unemployment and encourage new start-up. A descriptive study was conducted in three Nigerian polytechnics. A total of 700 questionnaires were administered and 370 were returned. The questionnaires were designed to analyse students’ perception and inclinations. Based on the data collected and analysed, it was discovered that two variables were found to have significant relationship with entrepreneurship education. However, it was also gathered from the study that there are various challenges facing entrepreneurship like inadequate funding, very few trained entrepreneurship lecturers and lack of enabling environment as some of the reasons for low entrepreneurial activities in our institutions. The paper concludes by making recommendations on how to improve entrepreneurship education courses in order to achieve the desired objectives of the programs.
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Language	English
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Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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