The Effect Of Entrepreneurship Education In Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions Among Selected University Students In Kenya
View/ Open
Date
2019Author
Njoroge, Melvin Wairimu
Type
ThesisLanguage
enMetadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Entrepreneurship in many countries play an important role. It is a huge contributor to the
economic growth of Kenya whereby many jobs have been created. Several factors affect
entrepreneurship and this include; politics, gender, technology, access to funds, personal factors,
poor entrepreneurial skills, education and much more. Education was seen as a tool to resolve
most of the mentioned issues and hence in 1988, Kenya’s education systems introduced
entrepreneurship in their education programs. This begun entrepreneurial education phenomenon.
Entrepreneurial Education combines essential skills already learned, studied and approved by
established entrepreneurs over the years. Studies have shown that entrepreneurial education is
critical to the growth and survival of enterprises. The study therefore was aimed at establishing
the influence of entrepreneurial education in developing entrepreneurial intentions among
university students in Kenya. Descriptive research design was used to study the research problem.
The target population of this study comprised 74 Universities teaching entrepreneurship in
Kenya. The study took a sample 3 Universities 27 students in total using stratified sampling.
Collecting of data was through use of questionnaires. The study used descriptive techniques to
analyze data. Results obtained show that the students had a clear understanding on the concept of
entrepreneurship. Findings indicated that respondents had highest expectations of improving their
networking skills, communication skills, creativity, and negotiation skills and even start a
business. Those with already existing businesses sought to improve the performance of their
business through financial management, business planning and much more. The findings of the
study indicated that most students had actually achieved this, some even before completion of the
course. Most of them indicated they had achieved their intended goals
Publisher
University of Nairobi
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesUsage Rights
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/Collections
- School of Business [1311]
The following license files are associated with this item: