Vocational and Technical Education Journal

TVET training is an avenue to empower the youth to be self-employable, to have employable skills and to boost economic development. The paper looked at the meaning of entrepreneurship education, technical vocational education and training, TVET learner’s entrepreneurship attitudes and entrepreneurial soft skills. The paper reviewed the type of soft skills, the entrepreneurial soft skill competencies and also the steps for action in acquiring these soft skills. The paper further proposed that in stimulating students entrepreneurship attitude towards wealth creation, the institution role as a motivator of entrepreneurial attitude can be categorized into two which are its role as an educator and its role as a promoter of entrepreneurship. The paper concluded that the success of entrepreneurship education is the responsibility of entrepreneurship teachers as the need for synergy in the planning, implementation, and the evaluation of learning that emphasizes on contextual and holistic approaches. Four major recommendations were made among which are that government should support TVET institutions in hiring of more trained teachers to curb inadequacy of teachers and merging of classes and also organize for skill upgrading and in-service programmes to help teachers cope with new technology.

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