Entrepreneurship education and youth’s development of sustainable skills in Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Bayelsa State

Abstract

The study examined entrepreneurship education and youth’s development of sustainable skills in Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Bayelsa State. The study adopted the descriptive research design. A sample of 525 respondents (including 21 principals, 21 vice principals, 84 teachers and 399 students) were selected from 21 public senior secondary schools in the study area. A 15-item and 10-item self-structured instruments titled “Entrepreneurship Education Inventory” (EEI) and “Youths Development of Sustainable Skills Questionnaire” (YDSSQ) respectively were designed. The obtained reliability coefficients of 0.82 and 0.79 necessitated the use of the EEI and YDSSQ instruments respectively for the collection of data that was analyzed using mean and standard deviation alongside, Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). The study revealed grand mean scores of: 3.68, 3.69, and 3.71 alongside (r) values of 0.760**, 0.736**, and 0.729** indicating a positive and strong contribution of entrepreneurship education to youth's development of intellectual skills, creative skills, and self-reliance skills respectively in Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Bayelsa State. It was recommended that among others the Bayelsa State government should establish a full-fledged "Entrepreneurship Department" in all her six (6) State-owned tertiary institutions to impart intellectual, interpersonal, innovative, and managerial skills among other sustainable skills to the students.