AYO-SOBOWALE MOPELOLA OMOTAYO

Educational Management

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Topic: EFFECT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ON ENTREPRENEURIAL PERFORMANCE ON UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS' IN SOUTH-WEST OF NIGERIA

Description:

Introduction: Entrepreneurship is a remarkable force that has a huge impact on facilitating growth and societal progress of a nation. It involves innovation, employment creation and social empowerment. Entrepreneurship involves identifying, evaluating and exploiting opportunities and introducing new products to the market through organized efforts (Carree & Thurik, 2012). According to research, entrepreneurship is a particular type of a planned and intentional act that can promote efficiency in the economy by providing employment through new job creation, innovation and economic growth. The recognition of entrepreneurship in economic development and employment creation and was therefore integrated  into Higher Education, it is been emphasized now that 21st universities have become important engines of technological development and economic growth. Therefore, universities today are faced with the function of establishing and developing an entrepreneurship-oriented economy. Also,the universities are seen to play important role in helping to realize the governments' effort in cultivating and stimulating entrepreneurial intentions(EI) among students to venture into business as their career after graduation. Moreover, entrepreneurial programmes offered by universities provide useful business skills for future independent entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial individuals. The introduction of entrepreneurship education is to improve the academic performance, to develop the skills in the students, to learn new subject and learn some basic skills like practical market skills.

Aims/objectives: The research is to examine the effects of entrepreneurship education variables (Curriculum practices, Teaching methodologies, and entrepreneurial industrial attachments on students entrepreneurial performance of university undergraduate students' in Nigeria

Methodology: The sample consisted of all final year students that must have taken entrepreneurship education as a course or a course under the GNS. The research was anchored on the epistemology philosophy.The tools used were both descriptive and inferential analysis.

Expected results: The findings showed that all the variables of interest indicated positive and significant effects on entrepreneurial performance.

Contribution to knowledge: The research pointed out that there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial performance of university undergraduates' in terms of their intents to start business/ venture creation. Also, the study bridged the gap in literature on the benefits of students going for entrepreneurial industrial attachments having new ideas and building job-related skills, communication and practical skills. and to be exposed to real business experiences not found in schools.

#	Certificate	School	Year
1.	Ph.D (ENTREPRENEURSHIP)	KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY, MALETE, ILORIN	2021

Exploration of the impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Enterprise creation of undergraduate students' in South-West of Nigeria

Introduction: Entrepreneurship education has been considered a relevant field of study. The goal of entrepreneurial studies programme is to empower graduates, irrespective of their areas of specialization with skills that will enable them to engage in income-yielding ventures if they are unable to secure paid jobs. The promotion of entrepreneurship and promulgation of Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SMEs) policy has become an important development prescription in recent years. Goetz, Fleming & Rupasigha (2012) found that venture creation has a significant positive economic impact not only on wages and salary employment but also on wages and salary employment but also on per capital growth and poverty reduction. Empirical research reveals the prominent role of SMEs to economic development, especially in area of wealth creation and employment generation in countries like China, Enterprise creation depends on one's prepared mindset or intentions, and this depends on one's personality and abilities. In most economies SMEs occupy the greatest proportion of enterprises (Katua,2016). A study done by Federal Office of Statistics showed that 97% of all businesses are SMEs and there are over a total of 17.4 million SMEs in Nigeria.

 Aims/Objectives:  The objective of the research is to investigate the effect of entrepreneurship education variables on university undergraduate students' enterprise creation in Nigeria. 

Methodology: A Stratified sampling is adopted in choosing the universities based on proprietorship (Federal, State and Private). A total of 3160 respondents from a population of 80,740 final year undergraduate students constituted the sample of the study. A multiple regression technique will be used to determine the significant relationship between  entrepreneurship education variables and enterprise creation of university undergraduate students' in Nigeria.

AYO-SOBOWALE MOPELOLA is a Lecturer I at the Department of Educational Management

AYO-SOBOWALE has a Ph.D in ENTREPRENEURSHIP from KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY, MALETE, ILORIN