The Impact Of Entreprenehipial Education

The contribution of entrepreneurial education towards influencing entrepreneurial intention among students had been examined by several scholars and it seems to have inconclusive arguments. In a similar view, the definition of entrepreneurial education, as well as its contents remains vague (***) For example, the definition given by United Kingdom Quality Assurance Agency for Education QAA (2012) sees entrepreneurial education as a way of preparing students through business start-ups. In addition, QAA (2012) described entrepreneurial education to be education that furnished students with extra knowledge, attributes, and capacity needed to setup a new business and operates it effectively. According to Fayolle and Klandt (2006), entrepreneurial

Based on the author’s opinion, entrepreneurship education encompasses components such as entrepreneurial learning environment, active and enterprise-promoting policy in society, and, also active individuals with initiatives. Further arguments put forward by Virkkunen (2009) was that entrepreneurial education is a life-long learning pedagogy from which entrepreneurial skills are initiated, developed and supplemented at virtually all points in life. With entrepreneurial education, Virkkunen (2009) argued that entrepreneurs are able self-guide their own action (attitude), innovate process that brings change, evolve the mode of operation, desire and will unite with the knowledge to advance the competence in entrepreneurial

Using Logit regression set to 99% confidence interval, Dogan (2015) found a positive significant result, thus, conclude that the performance of students in an entrepreneurship class dictates their intention to become an entrepreneur. Another similar investigation is that of Ekpoh, and Edet (2011) using Entrepreneurship Education and Career Intentions Questionnaire (EECIQ) questionnaire, the result using frequency distribution deduce that the samples surveyed have the mindset of gaining employment and creates their own small