Abstract

Entrepreneurship is the vital engine for economic, social, practical and all round development of any nation. It prepares business education graduates competency to seek for investment opportunities, establishing the right attitude in maintainingenterprise successfully. Business education embraces entrepreneurship to functions optimally in dual capacity for the advancement in reducing unemployment and establishing entrepreneurial culture. Notwithstanding, the kind of education a nation plans for its people is articulated by the curriculum as well as any planned people is articulated by the curriculum as well as any planned formal and informal experiences that learners undergo. Thus, this study examines students’ competence and attitude towards entrepreneurship among business education students’ in Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, Lagos. The population of the study covered all students offering entrepreneurship among business education students in Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, Lagos. The sample for this study comprises of one hundred and twenty (120) respondents. The sampling techniques that was used for this study was based on stratified and simple random sampling technique. The Business Education students were divided into four strata namely: Accounting, Office Technology and Management Education, Marketing and Entrepreneurship departments out of which each using simple random technique hat and kind method. Data was collected through the use of questionnaire. Simple percentage was used to analyze the demographic data collected from one hundred and twenty respondents. The t-test method was used to test the null hypothesis. It was concluded that government should allocate more amount on entrepreneurship workshops, seminars for the betterment reduce over reliance on white collar jobs. Also, suggested solutions, conclusions and recommendations were given

Keywords

Attitude, Business Education, Entrepreneurship and Students’ Competence