Influence of Economics Education Curriculum on Entrepreneurial Skills of University Graduants in Kaduna State

Student: Emmanuel Wakka Joshua (Project, 2025)
Department of Economics Education
Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Kaduna State

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe study was conducted to establish the Influence of Economics Education Curriculum on Entrepreneurial Skill of Kaduna State University Graduates. The study was necessitated by the continuous decline of universities economics education graduates’ entrepreneurial skills which has resulted into escalating unemployment, social vices and economic hardship amongst others. The study had five objectives. Five research questions were generated to guide the study and five null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Survey research design was used in the study. The population of the study was one hundred and forty-four (144). Questionnaire were developed and used for data collection. One hundred and thirty-four (134)copies of the questionnaire were completed and returned. In answering the research questions, weighted mean of 2.5 and above was used as benchmark for agree while weighted mean of less than 2.5 represented disagree. Regression Analysis was used to test hypotheses, all at 0.05 alpha level of significance. All the Null hypotheses were accepted. In view of these findings, five recommendations were made, among which is economics education graduates should incorporate technology such as computer accounting package in their activities for accurate record keeping and computation.

Keywords
Economic Education Entrepreneurial Skill University Grandaunt Human Resources and Financial Management.
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