ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF GHANAIAN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATES

This paper examines the suitability of the content and pedagogy of Ghanaian polytechnic syllabus in developing able and confident entrepreneur’s mindset of polytechnic graduates. Based on a survey of 750 final year students, the paper explores curriculum coverage of entrepreneurship syllabus, teachi...

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Main Authors: Edem M. Azila-Gbettor, Adjimah Paul Harrison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EconJournals 2013-01-01
Series:International Review of Management and Marketing
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Online Access:http://econjournals.com/index.php/irmm/article/view/483/pdf
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spelling doaj-6db32a79b2c44ca7ade4f556248c282b2020-11-25T03:59:52ZengEconJournalsInternational Review of Management and Marketing 2146-44052013-01-0133102111ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF GHANAIAN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATESEdem M. Azila-GbettorAdjimah Paul HarrisonThis paper examines the suitability of the content and pedagogy of Ghanaian polytechnic syllabus in developing able and confident entrepreneur’s mindset of polytechnic graduates. Based on a survey of 750 final year students, the paper explores curriculum coverage of entrepreneurship syllabus, teaching and learning methods and emphasis and respondents capacity to start a business.The results indicated weaker link between the entrepreneurship development course of the polytechnic and preparedness of graduates to create businesses, at least from the student perspective which may be largely due to the teaching and learning methods.http://econjournals.com/index.php/irmm/article/view/483/pdfEntrepreneur(ship)EducationCurriculumPedagogyContentSyllabus
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF GHANAIAN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATES
International Review of Management and Marketing
Entrepreneur(ship)
Education
Curriculum
Pedagogy
Content
Syllabus
author_facet Edem M. Azila-Gbettor
Adjimah Paul Harrison
author_sort Edem M. Azila-Gbettor
title ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF GHANAIAN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATES
title_short ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF GHANAIAN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATES
title_full ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF GHANAIAN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATES
title_fullStr ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF GHANAIAN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATES
title_full_unstemmed ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF GHANAIAN POLYTECHNIC GRADUATES
title_sort entrepreneurship training and capacity building of ghanaian polytechnic graduates
publisher EconJournals
series International Review of Management and Marketing
issn 2146-4405
publishDate 2013-01-01
description This paper examines the suitability of the content and pedagogy of Ghanaian polytechnic syllabus in developing able and confident entrepreneur’s mindset of polytechnic graduates. Based on a survey of 750 final year students, the paper explores curriculum coverage of entrepreneurship syllabus, teaching and learning methods and emphasis and respondents capacity to start a business.The results indicated weaker link between the entrepreneurship development course of the polytechnic and preparedness of graduates to create businesses, at least from the student perspective which may be largely due to the teaching and learning methods.
topic Entrepreneur(ship)
Education
Curriculum
Pedagogy
Content
Syllabus
url http://econjournals.com/index.php/irmm/article/view/483/pdf
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