Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Skills as a Panacea to Graduate Unemployment in the South East Nigeria: A Sustainable Development Tool (Evidence From Public Polytechnics In The South East Nigeria)

Abstract

Abstract

The study examined the role of entrepreneurship education and the enhancement of entrepreneurial skills in solving graduate unemployment in the south east Nigeria. Questionnaire was used to collect data from students on entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial skills. The population of the study was 57,710 and a sample size of 399 was determined using Taro Yamene. The research adopted the purposive sampling technique. The hypothesis was tested at 0.05 per cent level of significance using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) with the aid of SPSS version 21.0. The study found that there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurship education curriculum content and entrepreneurial skills in undergraduates in the South Eastern States. The study concluded that entrepreneurship skills acquisition is at the center of solving unemployment problems among the youths in the South Eastern Nigeria by making the self-dependent and employers of their own labour.  The study recommended that Entrepreneurship skill acquisition should be made compulsory for every final year student as a condition for certification by the institution.