INTRODUCTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SECONDARY GENERAL SCHOOLS IN CAMEROON
Abstract
Entrepreneurship education is a recent field in education. From a field mainly related to small business, it is extended towards the enhancement of students’ entrepreneurial attitudes and skills. This is mainly because of the complaints by employers in Cameroon that students who pass through the secondary general curriculum do not often possess the skills required by industries (Ndille, 2016) .It can support students in developing an independent and versatile mine. By growing the spirit of entrepreneurship they will be able to solve local problems and at the same time make a decent leaving in the process and by so doing help generate decent employment for themselves and others. Developing entrepreneurship competence among students requires the mastery of concepts by teachers and the political will by administrators (Solomon, 2007). This study was a descriptive survey research, designed to analyses the Introduction of Entrepreneurship Education in Public Secondary general Schools in Cameroon. This study worked with 100 respondents. These respondents will comprise of 20 school administrators and 80 teachers from public secondary general schools. This study had the following objectives: If secondary school teachers have had any training in entrepreneurship education, again what are the convictions of teachers towards implementing entrepreneurship education in secondary schools and finally what they might think will hinder the implementation of entrepreneurship education in secondary schools. This study found out that: Most teachers and school administrators have had no training in entrepreneurial education. Again despite the lack of training most of the teachers and school administrators are convince that entrepreneurship education will improve on their students survival abilities. And finally most of the respondents identified hindrances to the implementation of entrepreneurship education in secondary schools.
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