ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION THROUGH THE LENS OF THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ALERTNESS

Authors

  • B. Y. Tanko Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC), Shehu Idris Institute of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi, Kaduna State University-(KASU)
  • N. Abdullahi Department of Business Administration, Business School, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
  • I. A. Aliyu Department of Actuarial and Insurance Science, Business School, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Keywords:

Colleges of Health Sciences, Entrepreneurial Alertness, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Intention, Theory of Planned Behaviour

Abstract

There is persistent rise in the general level of unemployment or more specifically youth and
graduate unemployment in recent years among Nigerian graduates. This necessitates
Nigerian government to introduce entrepreneurship education programme in 2006/2007
academic session to lessen effect of the problem. The study attempted to empirically establish
the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention of students of
colleges of health sciences in the North-Western Nigeria. To run the model, cross sectional
data from 293 students of the colleges of health sciences in North-West Nigeria were
analysed using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM), with the
aid of SmartPLS 3.3.3. The study established that, entrepreneurial intention is directly
influenced by the entrepreneurship education. The study also, established that, the
entrepreneurial intention was mediated by entrepreneurship education through attitude and
subjective norms. However, entrepreneurial intention was not mediated by entrepreneurship
education through perceived behavioural control and entrepreneurial alertness, according to
this study. Therefore, finding of this study submits that entrepreneurial intention could be
encouraged through entrepreneurship education courses. The study therefore, recommended
that lecturers teaching entrepreneurship education (EEd) courses should be sponsored to
attend local and international conferences to acquire more up to date knowledge on
entrepreneurship. On the teachers/lecturers part they should spare more time to master
various methods of imparting knowledge and skills, so that they could meritoriously
discharge their duties of creating awareness effectively onto their students. Similarly, the
students should be made to understand that, the mandatory entrepreneurship education
courses are as important as other courses in their programmes of study.

Published

2024-12-20

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024)

Section

Articles