MANAGEMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AT THE POST-BASIC EDUCATION LEVEL IN ENUGU STATE: IMPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT GENERATION

Abstract

The study examined the management of entrepreneurship education at the post- basic education level in Enugu State and the implications for employment generation. Two research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study using an 18-item, researcher developed instrument tagged; Managing Entrepreneurship Education at the Post-Basic Education Level Questionnaire (MEEPBELQ). The population for the study consisted of all the 314 principals of all the 314 secondary schools in Enugu State. No sampling was carried out because of the manageable size of the population. The instrument was face validated by 3 experts, 2 in Educational Management and 1 in Measurement and Evaluation. All the experts were from the Faculty of Education, ESUT. The reliability co-efficient of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha. Alpha values (cluster by cluster and overall) yielded .71, .75 and .79 respectively. The two research questions were answered using mean and grandmean, while the hypothesis was tested using t-test statistics at .05 level of significance. Results indicate that the various secondary schools in Enugu state lacked the necessary equipment to teach entrepreneurship education to the learners. Also, real entrepreneurship education is not being taught in most of the various schools. Recommendations include; provision of requisite equipment to teach the subject amongst others.