Entrepreneurship Education Needed by Woodwork Technology Students in Tertiary Institution in Anambra State

Abstract

The paper determined the entrepreneurial skills needed by woodwork technology education students to be self-reliant after graduation. The population of the study was 105, made up of 40 respondents in FCE (T) Umunze and 65 respondents in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa. The entire population constituted the ‘ample for the study because of the manageable size. Three research questions were raised and two hypotheses were formulated that guided the study and tested at 0.05 level of significance. A fifty three (53) items instrument captioned entrepreneurship skills needed by wood work technology education students for Sell-reliance (ESNWTESSR), questionnaire was developed by the researchers and used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by three specialists and a pilot test of the instrument was carried out. A reliability co-efficient of 0.87 was obtained using cronbach alpha reliability method. Data collected were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and z-test statistic. Findings revealed among others that woodwork “technology education students needed eighteen (18) entrepreneurship skills and most essentially needed 16 “out of the 18 skills identified by this study for self-reliance after graduation. There is no significance between urban and rural (Unizik and Umunze) respondents in their mean responses on the type of entrepreneurial skills needed by wood work technology education students for self-reliance. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that the current entrepreneurship curriculum be reviewed and updated to include the identified courses, of study in this research survey.