THE IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND PERSONALINITIATIVE ON SELF-EMPLOYMENT INTENTION AMONG FINAL YEARSTUDENTS OF PLATEAU STATE UNIVERSITY, BOKKOS
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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.
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