TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Ashiboe-Mensah, Kofi
T1  - Ghanaian tertiary graduates' perception of entrepreneurship education on employment opportunities
T2  - Munyoki, Bode (Eds.): Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa - Conference Proceedings 2017. Nairobi, Kenya, 19. July 2017
N2  - This study focuses on whether entrepreneurship education increases entrepreneurial interest in students to set up new businesses. Entrepreneurship is a core course taken in the third year by all students of Ho Technical University. Out of the 1329 population of level 300 students of the 2016/2017 academic year, data were collected by convenience sampling from 325 (217 males and 108 females) with mean age of 24.75 years from 14 departments of four faculties. The students responded to 43-survey items derived from reviewed literature on a 5-Point Likert-Scale. It is concluded that more than 84% of the respondents agreed that entrepreneurship education informed students about entrepreneurship through the acquisition of practical skills, knowledge about acquisition of personal orientation, knowledge about business management principles and the availability of entrepreneurial support agencies. This shows that the students are highly confident of setting up their own businesses through the knowledge acquired. The study therefore has important implications for policy makers, management of tertiary institutions, students and educational evaluators on how to ensure that tertiary graduates set up entrepreneurship ventures in order to partially solve the unemployment problem in Ghana.
KW  - support agencies
KW  - practical skills
KW  - personal orientation
KW  - entrepreneurial interest
KW  - business management principles
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-34185
SN  - 978-3-96043-060-5
SB  - 978-3-96043-060-5
U6  - https://doi.org/10.18418/978-3-96043-060-5_50
DO  - https://doi.org/10.18418/978-3-96043-060-5_50
SP  - 50
EP  - 72
ER  -