Personal Characteristics and Entrepreneurial Intentions of Business Education students in Kano state, Nigeria

This study examined the impacts of personal attributes on the entrepreneurial intentions of Business Education students in Kano state of Nigeria. The key objective of the study was to find out the functional relationship between the personal attributes of Business Education students and their entrepreneurial intentions. The study was delimited to the six tertiary educational institutions that offer Business education programmes at NCE or degree levels and are located in Kano state of Nigeria. Two alternate hypotheses were proposed to this effect and the plan adopted for this study was descriptive survey design. The population comprised 3,557 NCE and Degree Business Education students in these institutions and a combination of proportional and random sampling techniques was used to select a sample of 285. Self-completed questionnaire was deployed for data collection. Standard multiple regression and students t-test were used to test hypotheses one and two respectively at 95% confidence level. Findings revealed that personal attributes (gender, level of education, order of birth and family job orientation) made statistically significant contribution to variation in entrepreneurial intentions of business education students. Also, there was significant difference in the entrepreneurial intentions of male and female students. The study concluded that the personal attributes are the important predictors of entrepreneurial intentions . It was recommended that these personal attributes should be factored into the entrepreneurship education curriculum design and evaluation by the curriculum designers and implementers with a view to leapfrogging the efficacy of the curriculum offerings. Key words: entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intentions, gender, business education, curriculum, innovation DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/16-9-08 Publication date : November 30th 2024