Determinants of Business Entrepreneurial Aspiration among Business Education Students in Ogun State Owned Colleges of Education

Abstract

The study examined how graduates’ unemployment challenges could be solved through applicability of business education skills in Ogun States, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. A descriptive survey research design of ex-post type was adopted. The population of the study comprised 3,594 undergraduates of business education programme department of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun States, Nigeria for the academic session of 2021/2022. A total of 380 business education undergraduates were selected as sample size representing 10.6% of the population. Stratified sampling technique was adopted in selecting the sampled in order to prevent gender biasness. A self-researcher developed questionnaire title: Unemployment and Business Education Program Questionnaire (UBEPQ) was used for data collection. The instrument (UBEPQ) was divided into three sections A, B and C-sections a focused on demographic characteristic of the respondent while section B and C embraced business education skills required for solving graduate unemployed challenges and the extent to which the applicability of business education skills could be used as predictors towards solving graduate unemployment challenges. The reliability of the instrument was carried out and the data generated and were subjected to person product Moment Correlated (PPMC) and the result of the coefficient yielded 0.93. This is an evident that the instrument (UBEPQ) can elicit required data for the sturdy towards achieving objective of the sturdy. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used for answered research question I while research question 2 was answered using regression analysis. The fining of the sturdy the accounting, secretarial and human resource management skills were among the business education skills required for solving graduate unemployment challenges in Ogun state, Nigeria. It was also indicated that there was significant joint contribution of the accounting, secretarial and human resources management skills on the graduate’s unemployment and that about 36.9% of the variances in graduate unemployment as accounted by the linear combination of the independent variable (accounting, secretarial and human resources skills). It was recommended that business education program should further focus on skills development, building and lay more emphasize on entrepreneurial development and engagement of its recipients.