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- Using South Africa as a case study, this study looked at the impact of entrepreneurship on the country's economic development. Data was gathered using a qualitative method. As a result, semi-structured interviews were performed with eight people in four rural South African districts. The study's findings suggest that elements such as job creation, community development, raising the standard of living, and encouraging research and development for entrepreneurship, among others, are all aspects that contribute to the country's economic growth and development. As a result, it is suggested that everyone should learn how to be an entrepreneur, that educational institutions and government organizations should work together to promote work-integrated learning, and that government policies should tell the country how important entrepreneurship is to the growth of the economy.
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- Entrepreneurship remains core to different societies as it contributes to the development in various ways. Hence, this study explores the role played by entrepreneurship in promoting economic development, economic growth and job creation. It considers the way entrepreneurship contributes to the economic growth of the country, with an aim of understanding how entrepreneurship influences the standard of living of people, economic development, wealth-sharing and job creation method. Questionnaires were administered to 300 lecturers across 5 tertiary institutions learning in South Africa. Retrieved data was analysed using SPSS. The analysed data show that entrepreneurship has the potency to enhance development. Further findings from the study shows that it is good practice for tertiary institutions of learning to have budget for entrepreneurship education, which in turn is expected to empower citizens. Also, it is good for stakeholders which should include entrepreneurs within and around the host communities of the institutions of learning to be involved during curriculum planning. The study recommends amongst others that entrepreneurship education should be maximised in improving job creation, ensuring sustainable development. Also, relevant stakeholders such as entrepreneurs should be involved in curriculum planning and designing, entrepreneurship education should be treated with utmost caution and made a practical course.
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- This paper explored factors impacting entrepreneurship education in TVET colleges which play important roles in developing knowledgeable and skilled citizens capable of contributing effectively to the social and economic development of a country. Positivists approach was adopted for data collection through the use of self-designed questionnaire which was administered to 371 TVET lecturers. The findings of the study show that it is important to ensure that TVET education relate to real world skills which are needed by the industries. Social and economic growth of a country relies heavily on the development and maintenance of a viable, and responsive TVET sector.
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