The relationship between Business education Teachers Competencies and entrepreneurship development of students in Tertiary Institutions in Rivers state

Abstract

The study examined the business education teacher’s competencies and entrepreneurship development of students in tertiary institutions in Rivers State. The purpose of the study was to access the relationship between the competencies of business education teachers and entrepreneurship development of students. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The population consists of 140 business education teachers and 800 students. The sample used for the study comprised of 129 business education teachers and eighty (80) 300 level students of the four tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Means and standard deviation were used to answer the three research questions while t- test statistics was used to test the three null hypotheses formulated for the study . The findings of the study revealed a high positive relationship between business education teacher’s pedagogy competency and entrepreneurship intentions development among students in tertiary institutions. The result also revealed that there was significant relationship between pedagogy competency and entrepreneurship intentions development in Rivers state. The study recommended that business education lecturers in tertiary institutions in Rivers State should always attend workshop and conferences in order to improve on their pedagogy, skills and competencies for improved entrepreneurship development in Rivers state.