Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions and Determinants in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges: Lessons from Gurage Zone, Ethiopia
研究了埃塞俄比亚古拉格区三所技术职业教育与培训学院学生创业意向的决定因素，发现创业教育是唯一显著影响因素，对改进课程和降低失业有参考价值。
Unemployment is a very severe phenomenon in most developing countries. To get control of such a challenge, the government of Ethiopia has been incorporated an entrepreneurship curriculum both at TVET and university levels. In fact, we have entrepreneurship as a subject at Colleges and Universities, the problems of a low rate of entrepreneurial intentions and a high degree of unemployment are still found in all regions of the country. To enhance graduate students’ appetites for entrepreneurship and self-employment, investigating influencing factors of TVET students is compulsory. Hence, this study lines up to investigate determinants of TVET graduate students’ intentions towards entrepreneurship in the Gurage Zone. The study selected 254 proportionate respondents from the total populations of 695 by using simple random sampling from three TVET schools namely; Wolkite Poly technique, Butajira, and Agena TVET schools. The regression analysis output showed that all independent variables of the model explained entrepreneurial intention by 61.4%. The study concluded that only entrepreneurial education determined TVET graduate students’ intentions towards entrepreneurship. Besides, TVET graduates have a high degree of entrepreneurial intention because of the practicality of their field of study despite the fact that they are influenced by many factors. Finally, the study recommended that entrepreneurship education should have to be offered to TVET graduate students practically and access to finance, market, business area location, and tax support should be adhere.