Empowerment of Young Entrepreneurs Through Entrepreneurship Education: Students’ Perception

Abstract

Entrepreneurship education becomes the vital agenda of the Ministry of Education (MOE) to create more entrepreneurs among graduates. It is important to develop attitudes, values, and spirit and create intentions to choose entrepreneurship as a career in the future. Malaysian graduates were found to have low intention to be self-employed. Due to that, MOE planned a lot of programs to increase students’ intention toward entrepreneurship. The objective of this study was to examine the influence of involvement in entrepreneurship education toward students’ intention to be self-employed. This study also aimed to identify the students’ perceptions toward entrepreneurship education to empowering young entrepreneurs. The unit of analysis is final-year students of UiTM Pahang. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21 was used to test its correlation and descriptive analysis. The findings indicated that there is no influence of involvement in entrepreneurship programs toward intention to be an entrepreneur. The result also found that the students agreed that entrepreneurship education can give many benefits to them.