INFLUENCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ON TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS CAREER INTENTIONS IN HAIR DRESSING IN PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of entrepreneurship education on career intentions of tertiary institutions students in Plateau State, Nigeria with focus on hair dressing. One research question was asked in line with the research objective of the study while a hypothesis was formulated to test for significance of the influence at 0.05 level. The population of study comprised of a total of 16,202 students and a sample size of 1,620 which is ten percent of the total population. Stratified random sampling was employed to cater for different categories of students in the different tertiary institutions. A 4-point Scale Questionnaire with established reliability index of 0.87 and average validity index of 0.77 was used for data collection. Data obtained was analyzed using mean and standard deviation, and simple Regression was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Influence of entrepreneurship education had cumulative mean of 2.930 which is above the criterion mean of 2.500, implying that entrepreneurship education has influence on tertiary students‘ career intentions in hair dressing in Plateau State, Nigeria. Hypotheses tested indicated that entrepreneurship education has significant influenced (P≤ 0.05) on tertiary institutions students‘ career intentions in hair dressing in Plateau State, Nigeria. The study recommended that the teaching of entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions in Plateau State should not only be sustained but improved upon to further boost its cumulative influence on the career intentions of the students in hair dressing