TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILL ACQUISITION ON STUDENTS’ ATTAINING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN OYO STATE,NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigates technical and vocational education and training for entrepreneurial skill acquisition on
students’ attaining business development in Oyo state, Nigeria. Technical and Vocation Education and training
(TVET) and entrepreneurship education have always been used as a vehicle towards economic and social
transportation within the society. An evaluation design was adopted for the study which covered three higher
education institutions in Oyo state. Two research questions raised and two null hypotheses were formulated at
0.05 level of significance to guide the study. A purposive sample technique was used to select 135 students for
the study. Four hundred and fifty (450) students were used for the study and the instrument used for the study
was structured which was subjected to face and content index. Weighted mean and standard deviation were
used in the analysis data. K – R 21 approach was used to determined a reliability coefficient of 0.80 which was
made the instrument to be reliable and used for the study. The result among others revealed that technical and
vocational education and training and skill acquisition for entrepreneurship have been attained by business
education students higher in a theoretical manner and lower in exposing to practical skills. Based on the
findings of the study, recommendations were made among others that effective education should go far beyond
mere – literacy ability to read and write. It should incorporate ability to ‘‘do’’ and “apply” that is, it should
equip the learners with some form of technical – know – how and become entrepreneur.