Entrepreneurship Education and Self Employability Skills of Business Management Education Graduates of Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola
1 Yakubu Bala
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2 Umar Bobboi
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3 Mohammed Ayuba Mamawa
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Department of Business Management Education
School of Continuing Education
Adamawa State Polytechnic, PMB 2146 Yola
Abstract
This study entitled “Entrepreneurship Education and Self Employability skills of Business Management Education Students of Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola.” Two specific objectives and two Research Questions were stated while two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive Research Survey design was used for the study. Population for the study was 213 graduate of business management education students were used for the study. A structured questionnaire was the main instrument of the study; Mean scores were used to answer the two research questions. The research study determines Entrepreneurship Education and Self Employability skills of Business Management Education graduates in Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola to establish a new business, among others. To achieve these objectives three research questions were formulated from the objective to guide the researcher, one among others was, what is the influence of an entrepreneurship education on the ability of business education graduates of business management education to establish new business? A descriptive survey design was used and the population of the study were sixty-six (213) students graduated from business management education Adamawa State Polytechnic yola in the year 2024. A purposive sampling technique of twenty-nine (58) students was used as the sample size of the study. The instrument for data collection was basically questionnaire which was validated by the experts. The administration of sixty-six (58) copies of the questionnaire to the respondents was done by the researcher and they were filled and sent back the responses. Descriptive statistics of frequency distribution of percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the research questions of the study. Chi-square(X2) was used to test the null hypotheses which revealed among others, entrepreneurship education significantly influenced the ability of business education graduates of business management education to establish new businesses. The researcher concluded that entrepreneurial knowledge and skills if it’s not adequately taught and acquired by business education graduates would not enable them to establish, manage and sustain new businesses. The researcher recommended among others, that graduates should use the knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship acquired to establish, manage and sustain their own businesses, since they had been taught and trained all the necessary knowledge and skills in various vocation and occupation that will make them to be “job makers” not “job seekers”.
