Entrepreneurial Education Imperative Indices as Predictors of Human Security Among People in Ogun State

Abstract

Human security focuses on well-being of individuals and response to the people's needs in dealing with the sources of threats; Entrepreneurial education as a tool promotes skills that enable individual to be self-employed and self-reliant which influences vital core of human lives such as food, economy and social stability. This study was carried out to examine entrepreneurial education imperative indices as predictors of human security among people in Ogun state. A descriptive survey research design of the ex-post facto type utilizing a self-structured Likert type questionnaire titled Human Security Entrepreneurial Education Imperative Index Questionnaire (HSEQ) with a reliability index of 0.95 was used to elicit appropriate responses from the study population. A stratified random sampling technique was used to group the research location into four groups while five hundred (500) respondents were selected randomly from each group to make two thousand (2000) respondents as sample size. The data obtained were analysed using the inferential statistics of multiple regressions at 0.05 alpha level while two hypotheses formulated were rejected. This revealed that entrepreneurial education imperative index (food, employment and social stability) are significant predictors of human security among people in Ogun State. It was recommended amongst others that: government should have more locations and centres for skills acquisition to complement school based entrepreneurial education, individual and voluntary organisation should complement government effort in this line to further help masses to be self-employed.