EFFECTIVENESS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN TERTIARY TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE ERA OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The study determined the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in TVET in the era of COVID-19 pandemic. Two research questions were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study was made up of 20 subject consisting of all the 15 lecturers in the Department of Industrial and Technology Education and 5 lecturers in the Department of Education Technology, School of Science and Technology Education, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Mean and standard deviation (SD) were used to analyzed data collected. The study found out that these factors: teaching method, lack of career counselling, outdated curriculum, lack of motivation and so on moderately caused the ineffectiveness of entrepreneurship in TVET. These teaching methods: Zoom/google meet in lecture delivery; Video tape instruction; Blended Learning; Podcast, Vodcast e.t.c., can effectively enhance entrepreneurship in TVET in this era of COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended among others that, the government should make electronic devices available in every technical college for teaching. There should be training and retraining of technical educators on distance learning in using the available electronic devices.