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Entrepreneurial Skill Needs of Secretarial
Education Graduates of Colleges of
Education for Self Sustainability
in Enugu State, Nigeria
E. A. C. Etonyeaku
1
, J. A. Kanu
2
, H. A. Ezeji
1
, J. N. Chukwuma
1
1
Department of Vocational Teacher Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
2
Nigerian Educational Research & Development Council (NERDC), Abuja, Nigeria
Email: natedeh@yahoo.com
Received 25 April 2014; revised 20 May 2014; accepted 18 June 2014
Copyright © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc.
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Abstract
The study was carried out to determine the entrepreneurial skill needs required by secretarial
education graduates of college of education for self sustainability in Enugu State. Four research
questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive research de-
sign that made use of 40 item structured questionnaire. The population for the study was 238
respondents. The questionnaire was face-validated by three experts. Cronbach Alpha method was
used to determine the reliability of the items and a coefficient of 0.75 was obtained. The ques-
tionnaire was administered on 238 respondents by the researchers with the help of three re-
search assistants trained by the researchers. Two hundred and thirty-eight copies of the ques-
tionnaire were returned and considered valid. The analysis was done using mean for research
questions and t-test statistic for the hypotheses. The findings revealed that the 40 entrepreneurial
skill needs were required by the graduates for self sustainability. It therefore was recommended
among others that secretarial education graduates should be encouraged to acquaint themselves
with all the relevant entrepreneurial skills that will enable them to be self sustained in the society.
Keywords
Entrepreneurial Education, Skill, Secretarial Education, Self Sustainability
1. Introduction
The higher educational programmes in Nigeria had fallen short of expectations, and as a result, many of the