Entrepreneurship Training as Antidote for Business Education Students’ Human Capital Development and Economic Opportunities

Abstract

The study examined entrepreneurship training as antidote toward business education students’ human capital development and economic opportunities. Three research questions guided the study. A descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population comprised all business education students in Olabisi Onabanjo University and Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State. A total of 250 business education students from these mentioned universities were selected using stratified sampling technique. Researcher developed instrument tagged: Entrepreneurship Training, Human Capital Development and Economic Opportunities Questionnaire (ETHCDEOPQ) was used for data collection with reliability coefficient 0.96. Research questions 1 and 2 were analysed using mean and standard deviation. Research questions 1, 2 and 3 were answered using regression analysis and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) respectively. The findings of the study showed that entrepreneurship training was found to be significant and strongly determine business education students’ economic opportunities with the p-value less than 0.05 and magnitude of entrepreneurship training (β = 0.938, t = 73.336, p <.05). This implied that about 94% variation in business education students’ economic opportunities could be attributed towards entrepreneurship training. There was positive relationship between entrepreneurship training and business education students’ human capital development. There was positive relationship between entrepreneurship training and business education students’ economic opportunities. It was recommended that university management through its entrepreneurship skill acquisition centers should provide and sustain its skill acquisition schemes, by reviewing its activities to accommodate timely consumable needs, and expose their students to a regular skill acquisition programmes where the students must pass through before graduation