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Formulating Entrepreneurial Education through the Application of Event Entrepreneurship Model

Idris Adamu Alhaji, Farrah Merlinda Muharam, Thoo Ai Chin

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARPED/v11-i2/13241

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The aim of this paper is to examine the factors to be embedded in national entrepreneurial education as effort to increase entrepreneurial intention among secondary school learners through the lens of Event Entrepreneurship Model. Focusing on secondary school Students in Bauchi, Nigeria, the paper seeks to determine the effect of the entrepreneurship education, prior entrepreneurship experience, entrepreneurship awareness and perceived desirability self-employed on entrepreneurial intentions of these students. A cross-sectional survey was deployed using a sample of 400 students from 55 secondary schools in Bauchi. A structured self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection and SPSS Version 25 was used for the data captured and preliminaries analyses and Smart PLS was used in the main analysis of the data. Findings revealed that entrepreneurial intentions of secondary school students were prophesied by entrepreneurship education, along with entrepreneurship awareness and perceived desirability self-employed and previous entrepreneurship experience. Moreover, the awareness of financial assistance was found to be a significant moderator of the perceived desirability self-employed on entrepreneurial intention. It is concluded that, to develop a proper entrepreneurship education approach, embedment of entre entrepreneurship awareness and perceived desirability self-employed and previous entrepreneurship experience have to be considered if a nation would like to heighten the level of entrepreneurial intentions and supported by appropriate financial support.

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