Strength and Weakness of Entrepreneurship Education for Undergraduate Business Education Students’ Business Start-ups in Northern Nigeria

Adamu Isa Alhaji, Umar Y. B.

Abstract


This study aimed at determining entrepreneurship education of business education students’ strength and weakness for business start-up. The design used in the study was descriptive survey; a sample size of 270 was drawn from the population of 526 final year undergraduate Business Education students in Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi in the North-east, Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was administered by the researcher with the help of two research assistants. Data collected were analysed using Mean and standard deviation. The result of the study reveals that all the respondents have agreed that entrepreneurship development education train business education students’ entrepreneurial skills for business start-up. The study also revealed that all the respondents, have responded that there are weaknesses in entrepreneurship development education in training business education students for business start-up. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Government, Non-governmental organizations, Private sectors, Curriculum planners, Lecturers and Stakeholders shall increase training, enlightenment, sensitization in order to improve training of entrepreneurial skills for business start-up and also to address the weaknesses that hindered training of business education students for business start-up.


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