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Assessing Entrepreneur Education, Perceived Desirability of Self-employment and Entrepreneur Intention Among Trainee Teachers in a Higher Learning Institution

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Current studies revealed that university students’ career aspiration towards entrepreneur intention is on the rise. The impact of entrepreneurship education could be one of the driving factors that motivates university students to understand and foster an entrepreneurial attitude. However, the overriding question is: To what extent this phenomenon is relevant to graduate students who were trained to become teachers? In addition, job opportunities in a teaching area whether in public or even private schools are inevitably limited. Were these trainee teachers ready to be self-employed and venture into new entrepreneurship? Therefore, this study was intended to investigate the level of entrepreneur intentions among trainee teachers of UiTM, Shah Alam. Besides, this study was also intended to examine whether entrepreneur education and desirability of self-employment could influence entrepreneur intentions. This study utilised a survey method using a cross-sectional research design. About 159 undergraduate students from the faculty of education participated in this study. The finding showed that there was a positive and moderate relationship between entrepreneur education and desirability of self-employment on entrepreneur intentions. The discussion addresses implications and future research direction.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi MARA, UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia

    Norshidah Nordin, Rohaya Abdul Wahab & Melissa Malik

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Nordin, N., Wahab, R.A., Malik, M. (2016). Assessing Entrepreneur Education, Perceived Desirability of Self-employment and Entrepreneur Intention Among Trainee Teachers in a Higher Learning Institution. In: Mohd Sidek, N., Ali, S., Ismail, M. (eds) Proceedings of the ASEAN Entrepreneurship Conference 2014. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0036-2_6

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