Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
This study
examines the impact of SIWES in enhancing entrepreneurship skills of Business
Education Students in Colleges of Education in Cross River State College
Nigeria. It sorts specifically to establish the extent to which SIWES enhanced
various entrepreneurship skills of Business Education Students in the research
area and to spot the challenges hindering the acquisition of entrepreneurial
skills thereon, through SIWES. Various
authors’ views on the topic of the study were explored to a large extent under
dual parts literature review vis-à-vis theoretical and conceptual, covering the
variables under consideration. The work adopted survey research design and
Multi Stage Sampling Scheme was used in drawing a sample size of 200 students
from the population of the study. The sample size was determine using the Taro
Yamane formula at 0.05 error level of significance. A well-structured questionnaire
based on Five points Likert scale with weights: Strongly Agreed (SA) =5, Agreed
(A) =4, Undecided (UD) =3, Disagreed (D) =2 and Strongly Disagreed (SD) =1, was
used for data collection. The data collected was analysed using simple
percentages, bar graphs, and One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to test the
three formulated hypotheses. The result showed that an average percentage of
66.18% respondents accepted that SIWES is highly instrumental in enhancing the
entrepreneurship skills of Business Education students’ in the research area,
whereas 33.82% were of contrary views. The result of the ANOVA showed that (F=
149.12, p < 0.05) and since p (0.000) is less than p(0.05), it is an
indicator of significance. Implying that SIWES significantly enhanced
entrepreneurship skills of Business Education students in Colleges of Education
in Cross River State. Similar results were obtained for other hypotheses. It
was recommended among others that Tertiary Education regulatory bodies such as
National University Commission (NUC) and National Commission for Colleges of
Education (NCCE) should make SIWES a condition for granting accreditation to
Business Education programme and to set up a school based enterprise classroom
resources or academy that will help to host the career development of
graduating students from Business Education programme.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 12, December 2023 pp. 209-219