CHAPTER
ONE
Introduction
Background to the study
For many decades,
entrepreneurship has met the needs
of students in their efforts
to graduate from high school with usable
skills. The role of education
is to ensure that students are prepared for a future no matter what path they chose to follow. Bruner (1962) stated
that education must also seek to develop the process of intelligence so that the individual is capable of going beyond the cultural
ways of his social world, able to innovate in however modest way so that he can create an interior culture
of his own. Even through
schools frequently implement additional programmes to prepare students
for future; many students are still at risk of failing. According to Sullivan and Wilson (1995),
this burden is not heaped
entirely upon the shoulders of education
but also upon demographic variables i.e. family size,
income, parental composition, marital status, family conflict,
parental affection, level of supervisor, style or harshness of discipline and parental deviance.
The most accepted objective of entrepreneurship education is to provide a mechanism for meeting the man power needs of the local community. Entrepreneurship refers to the life experience on education and training that make one fit and carry on useful occupation. The history of Entrepreneurship can be traced to post colonial era because during the colonial period, it was emphasized on producing mere "literate" people who will be able to support the colonial administration. After independence 1960, the emphasis shifted to that producing people who will be able to take over the positions left behind by colonialists. The focus was that of rolling out people who will take up white collar jobs in public and private sectors. This system destroys the self-reliance and entrepreneurial spirit of Nigerians as they become dependent on white collar jobs which were prevalent during the colonial days. Garba (2010) holds that past educational policies in Nigeria field to explicitly recognize the importance of entrepreneurship to human capital another development in which a young child would became house maid to a close relative who could cloth and feed him or her for some years of usefulness as promised. He or she could then gradually introduce to the craft. These craft varies according to families in making contribution to entrepreneurial education to the employment of graduates of Kwara state polytechnic, Ilorin. It cannot be over-emphasized that with training in entrepreneurship education, students are helped to develop their interest in the knowledge and be able to stand on their own after training. So, many areas are opened to vocational students to show their expertise, such areas include working as a secretary in the office, as typist, teachers in fine arts and hand crafts and also to teaching other related subjects in any technical, commercial or higher institutions. Entrepreneurship education helps to plan the curriculum to cater for difference in talent and opportunities, it makes students to live effectively in our modern generation of science and technology, encourage the students to des.ire for achievement and self-improvement in the school and later in life to be occupationally competent and provide learning experience that will developed individual skill and ability
Statement of the Problem
Entrepreneurship is one of the most profitable sectors
in the Nigerian economy,
high performance
could be attained in terms of their returns
and obligations to the society. An
entrepreneurship education programme which is designed
to help to meet man power needs may actually decrease individual options for a particular occupation that following cases;
(i)
No clear cut policy at the national and state levels
(ii)
Poor sponsor of financial institutions
(iii)
Short duration
of Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) training
(iv)
Inappropriate method of teaching
entrepreneurship
education
and sub-stranded and inadequate
of curriculum content
(v)
Insufficient man power, equipment and materials to carry out the entrepreneurship educational programmes
(vi)
Poor
remuneration, poor working conditions and non-availability of competent faculty
Purpose of the Study
The major
purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial
skills and employment; of kwara state polytechnic graduates. Specifically,
Purpose of the Study Include:
1. The relationship between communication skills
and employability
of kwara
state polytechnic graduates.
ii . To inculcate
the spirit of computer skills in the graduates
.iii. To ascertain
the professional skills in the employability of kwara state polytechnic graduates.
Research Hypotheses
The following research hypotheses will be formulated for testing:
Ho: There is no significant relationship between
entrepreneurial skill and employ ability of Kwara state polytechnic graduates.
Ho1: There is no significant relationship between computer
skill and employability of Kwara state polytechnic graduates
Ho2: There is no significant
relationship between communication skill and employability of Kwara state polytechnic graduates
Ho3: There is no significant relationship between professional
skill and employability of Kwara state polytechnic graduates
Scope of the Study
This study focuses only on entrepreneurial skills and employability of kwara
state polytechnic graduates. The approach used is descriptive in nature and emphasis
is placed on entrepreneurial
'\
The skills of employability of Kwara
state polytechnic graduates. The profile
group is only on those who graduated
from 2016-2017. Therefore,
the sample was limited to the size of the population of students in the profile
group who graduated
from 2016-2017, and who were part of entrepreneurship education (vocational section)
programme.
Significance of the Study
The
importance of entrepreneurship education is to be found in its educative value.
That is, it helps to expose and increase public awareness of the people on the
importance of entrepreneurship education. It will help to contribute to the
efforts in increasing the income capacity of the people as they engage in
entrepreneurship education.
In
relation to the above is that entrepreneurship education could help to lay a
solid foundation for the rapid growth and development of the nation’s economic
sector.
Definition of Terms
(a) Employed graduate: Employed graduate is one who is able to secure
salaried employment after he/she has done with tertiary
education programme.
(b) Unemployed graduate: This is a graduate from tertiary institution and school leavers
who are unable to secure
salaried employment.
(c) Student in tertiary institutions: These are category
of student who are still in training
in the tertiary institution in line with directives
of national universities commission (NUC)
(d) Retirees: These are people who have worked and reach the terms and conditions in the working salaried
arena
(e) Retiring employees: These
are
workers
who
is fast approaching the retirement condition for workers .
(f) Entrepreneur: entrepreneur is a person
who is successful in setting
up a business or business.
(g) Entrepreneurship: is the education given to students
on how to become entrepreneur i.e. how business is been set-up
Employment: is the situation when an employer
makes use, occupy
or given work to an employee
or employees.
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