Entrepreneurship education and graduate unemployment: How are African universities making a difference?
Overview
The project was motivated by the grand challenge of youth unemployment in Africa. It aimed to explore the centrality of university entrepreneurship education and the extent to which the pedagogy of entrepreneurship in these African universities contributes to building students’ entrepreneurial competences and reducing graduate unemployment.
To achieve this, we formed a collaborative partnership with four universities in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa – Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia.
Dates of project
November 2020 to August 2022
Methodology
A qualitative (comparative case study) approach was adopted using multiple data collection methods, including semi-structured interviews with selected final year undergraduate students, relevant university officials and academics in the selected universities, focus groups with university students and observations.
Potential impact
A key objective from this collaborative partnership was to create a research community and network for further research into the contextual nuances of entrepreneurship education and how African universities can better prepare students to becoming entrepreneurs.
The project was funded by the GCRF -QR and worked with project university partners in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia.