Moderating role of vocational guidance on the relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention among final year students of public universities in north-western Nigeria

Abstract

This study aims at examine the moderating role of vocational guidance on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention in north-western Nigeria. Literature suggested many factors as determinant of entrepreneurial intention. But, few studies have been attempted to consider the influence of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention in Nigeria. These few studies came up with mixed findings. Hence, this study aims to fill up the gap that exists in the extant literature by employing quantitative survey method, using 654 final year students from 12 public universities in north-western Nigeria. PLS-SEM was used for the data analysis. It has found that, entrepreneurship education has a direct significant relationship with entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, the findings revealed that vocational guidance (VG) fail to moderates the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. Implication of the finding and suggestion for future research were also discussed.