THE IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND PERSONAL INITIATIVE ON SELF-EMPLOYMENT INTENTION AMONG FINAL YEAR STUDENTS OF PLATEAU STATE UNIVERSITY, BOKKOS
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Maklu Nanteer Yonla1, Dariyem Na’andi Kruslat2 , Damak Obadiah Ibrahim3 Moses Emmanuel Dang4
and Bakut Christiana Jonathan5 1&4Department of Management Studies, Plateau State University, Bokkos
2National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru 3Department of Economics, Plateau State University, Bokkos
5Federal School of Statistics, Manchok, Kaduna State.
ABSTRACT
This research sought to establish the impact of entrepreneurship education and the development of personal initiative in higher institutions of learning to self-employment intention of graduate, using Plateau State University, Bokkos, as the study setting. Field data were collected through a questionnaire survey from seven Departments consisting of 532 respondents. A hierarchical regression analysis was performed to established the relationships among the studied variables. The results showed that self-employment intention is associated with entrepreneurship education; self-employment intention is associated with personal initiative among students of Plateau State University Bokkos. The novelty of this study lies in the fact that it provides empirical evidence for explaining the antecedent on the perspective of self-employment intention, contribution to plan behaviour and personal initiative theories, and validates the hypothesis that entrepreneurship education spurs personal initiative for individuals or students to become entrepreneurs.