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Item ENTREPRENEURSHIP CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION, TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND STUDENTS’ SKILLS UTILIZATION IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA(UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, 2018) FASANMI, Eunice ApekeApparently, the world is presently undergoing major transformations. Entrepreneurship curriculum implementation has been identified as part of the transformational measures towards ensuring the socio-economic empowerment of the nation’s youths and her technological development. Thus, this study investigated the relationship among entrepreneurship curriculum implementation (ECI), Total Quality Management Strategy (TQMS) and Students’ Skills Utilization (SSU) in Public Senior Secondary Schools (PSSS) in South-west, Nigeria. The main objectives were to examine the: (i) level of implementation of the 34 entrepreneurship subjects in PSSS in South-west, Nigeria; (ii) level of availability of entrepreneurship infrastructural facilities; (iii) practical skills students have acquired through products and services made; (iv) relationship between availability of entrepreneurship subject instructional materials and students’ academic performance, and (v) relationship among. ECI, TQMS and SSU. The study adopted a descriptive survey of correlational type. The population comprised 13,225 participants from the 2,645 PSSS in South-west, Nigeria. The sample size was 1,690 comprising one principal, one vice-principal (Academic), one HOD (Entrepreneurship) and two entrepreneurship subject teachers from each selected 338 out of 2,645 PSSS using purposive sampling technique and Krejeie Morgan Table respectively. Three instruments: “Entrepreneurship Curriculum Implementation and Students’ Skills Utilization Checklist” (ECISSUC), “Total Quality Management Strategy Questionnaire” (TQMSQ) and “Students’ Academic Achievement Proforma” (SAAP, WAEC standardized format), were used to collect relevant data. The instruments were content validated by five experts.The reliabilities of ECISSUC and TQMSQ were established using Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation (PPMC) statistics with coefficients 0.62 and 0.65, respectively. Ten research questions were raised and answered using percentages while the main and operational hypotheses were tested using Stepwise Multiple Regression and PPMC statistics at .05 alpha level. The findings of the study were that: i) the level of implementation of the 34 entrepreneurship subjects in PSSS was rated very low by participants 71.9%; ii) the level of availability of infrastructural facilities in PSSS in South-west, Nigeria was rated very low with the mean score of 1.28 below the cut off mean score of 1.50; iii) the practical skills students acquired as shown through product produced was low (39.1%); iv) a significant, low but positive relationship existed between availability of entrepreneurship subject instructional materials and students’ academic performance (r = 0.318; p < .05); and v) There was significant relationship among ECI, TQMS and SSU -- ECI & TQMS (r=0.621; p<.05), ECI and SSU (r=0.556; p<.05), TQMS and SSU (r=0.536; p<.05). The study concluded that there was a strong positive relationship among ECI, TQMS and SSU in PSSS in South-west, Nigeria. The implication of these findings is that adequate knowledge and effective utilization of TQMS would facilitate ECI for SSU in PSSS in South-west, Nigeria. It was recommended that Ministry of Education and curriculum planners should include TQMS in their various training workshops and seminars to sensitize all PSSS stakeholders on TQMS issues and make ample provisions for infrastructural facilities and instructional materials.Item ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION, COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP AND UNIVERSITY GOAL ACHIEVEMENT IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA(UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, 2021-06) OLADEJOBI, Janet OluwakemiEntrepreneurship education and community partnership have become trending issues which raised deep concern among educational stakeholders. Hence, transformational management strategies that could enhance effective entrepreneurship education and community partnership become imperative for actualization of university goal. The study examined entrepreneurship education, community partnership and university goal achievement in North-central Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to: (i) examine the level of entrepreneurship education in North-central, Nigeria; (ii) investigate the level of community partnership in North-central, Nigeria; (iii) determine the level of university goal achievement in North-central, Nigeria; (iv) examine the relationship between entrepreneurial attitude and university goal achievement in North-Central Nigeria; and (v) determine the relationship between community resource alliance and university goal achievement in North-Central Nigeria. Descriptive research design of correlation type was adopted in carrying out the study. The study population comprised 58,610 students and 74 policy makers and community stakeholders from six states and Federal Capital Territory in North-central Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was used to select eight out of the 23 Universities, while stratified sampling technique was employed to select 1,424 students and 58 policy makers and the community stakeholders respectively in North-central Nigeria. Three sets of research questionnaires were used: “University Entrepreneurship Education Questionnaire (UEEQ), University Community Partnership Questionnaire (UCPQ) and University Goal Achievement Questionnaire (UGAQ)”. Also, semi-structured interview and observation were used with the aid of coding, thematic processing of observation notes and video-recording to present inductive and deductive reasoning of the qualitative research findings. The instruments were validated with reliability coefficients of 0.71, 0.82 and 0.68 for UEEQ, UCPQ and UGAQ respectively. The semi-structured interview and observation methods were analysed using mean score, whereas the hypotheses were analysed using Pearson‟s correlation statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The benchmark for determining the level of entrepreneurship education, community partnership and university goal achievement were high with mean scores of 2.83-3.11, 3.24-3.32 and 3.21-3.32 respectively. The findings of the study were that: i. the level of entrepreneurships education was high with a mean score of 3.11; ii. the level of community partnership was high with a mean score of 3.32; iii. the level of university goal achievement was high, with a mean score of 3.21; iv. there was a positive significant relationship between entrepreneurial attitude and university goal achievement (r=0.32, p<0.05); and v. there was a positive significant relationship between community resource alliance and university goal achievement (r=0.056, p<0.05) The study concluded that entrepreneurship education and community partnership were desirable for accomplishing university goal. The implication of the study is that functional entrepreneurship training management and genuine community collaboration would address the challenges that are associated with graduate unemployment. The study recommended that entrepreneurship education training programme (EETP) be reviewed periodically in line with best global practices.