Use of icts and entrepreneurial skills development of faculty students in the university of Uyo – Nigeria

The study was on the use of information and communication technologies in entrepreneurial skills development of faculty students in the University of Uyo – Nigeria. After due observation on passive and inactive graduates doled out of the universities in Nigeria, the study was conceived to adopt the expost-facto-survey design and the Vrooms’s 1968 expectancy theory to develop one hypothesis to guide the process. 425 out of 1370 year four students of the Faculty of Education, University of Uyo were sampled using stratified random sampling and proportionate sampling techniques to take part in the study. A questionnaire instrument tagged Use of ICTs and Entrepreneurial Skills Development Questionnaire (UIESDQ) was developed to receive information from the respondents. The instrument was validated with two experts and had reliability co-efficient of .78 and was suitable to gain the required information. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test statistics and the hypothesis tested at .05 significant level. The analysis yielded a significant influence of use of ICTs on entrepreneurial skills development of faculty students. Based on the findings, the following recommendations are made to enhance entrepreneurial skills development of faculty students: (1) Entrepreneurial training should be part of the course programs for every undergraduate students’ in the universities, (2) ICTs facilities and linkages should be provided in various faculties and technical laboratories in the different university faculties among other recommendations.