SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Educational Management And Policy

CONTRIBUTORS:

Ani, A. N. A.
Ikediugwu, N.

ABSTRACT:

Entrepreneurship education was introduced by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2006 to reduce unemployment in the country. The programme however, faced many challenges. The purpose of this study was to analyze the principals’ managerial challenges in implementing entrepreneurial studies in secondary schools in Enugu State. It was a descriptive survey guided by four research questions and four null hypotheses. The population of the study comprised 569 respondents made up of 305 and 264 principals in public and private secondary schools respectively in Enugu State. The entire population was studied. The researcher developed instrument titled ‘Principals’ Entrepreneurship Managerial Challenges Questionnaire (PEMCQ)’ used for data collection. The instrument was validated by experts and the reliability was determined using Cronbach alpha. The co-efficient reliability indices of 0.80, 0.82, 0.81 and 0.80 were obtained for sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively while the overall index was 0.81. These indices were considered adequate for the study. The researcher together with six research assistants collected data for the study. Mean scores and z-test were used in data analysis. Findings of the study indicated the managerial challenges of the principals in implementing entrepreneurial studies in secondary schools in Enugu State as low human resources entrepreneurship managerial challenges, low entrepreneurship infrastructural resources managerial challenges, low financial entrepreneurship resources managerial challenges and low entrepreneurship learning resources managerial challenges. It was recommended among others that secondary school principals in Enugu State should attend entrepreneurship seminars, workshops and conferences organized by professional bodies to acquire the skills and knowledge needed for handling entrepreneurship human, infrastructural, financial and learning resources managerial challenges facing the implementation of entrepreneurship studies in their schools.