Challenges Facing Entrepreneurship Education in Universities, North Central States of Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigates challenges facing entrepreneurship education in universities, North central states of Nigeria. The focus of the study was on the weaknesses, and threats in the management of entrepreneurship education in the universities. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The sample for the study was composed through a multi-stage sampling technique. This gave a sample of 763 respondents used for the study. Based on the review of literature, two research questions and four null hypotheses guided the study. A questionnaire titled, Entrepreneurship Education Questionnaire (EEQ) was designed and used for the study. This instrument was validated and the overall reliability ascertained to be 0.75. From data collected, mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while T-test statistic was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results show that universities have weaknesses in the management of entrepreneurship education, but they also have opportunities of managing entrepreneurship education. Results further show that there is no significant difference between the mean responses of lecturers and coordinators on the weakness and threats to entrepreneurship education in the Universities. Based on this, the work recommends that, the universities authorities should make provision for lecturers to go for workshops or seminars so as to be exposed to current trends in EED programme. The Federal Government of Nigeria should maintain a policy aimed at making adequate fund available for entrepreneurship education in the universities.