ENTREPRENEURSHIP TEACHING FOR SELF-EMPLOYMENT AMONG HIGHER LEARNING STUDENTS IN TANZANIA: A LESSON LEARNT FROM SUCCESSFUL GRADUATE ENTREPRENEURS
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Despite several years of investing entrepreneurship education in Tanzanian higher learning education, still a large portion of graduates are incompetent, hence, they cannot start-up their own business ventures. The current study employed the SocialLearning Theory to explore effective teaching and assessment methods appropriate to entrepreneurship education in order to create self-employed graduates of higher learning education by drawing experience from some successful graduate entrepreneurs in Tanzania.The study aimed at filling the gap in the literature by exploring effective teaching methods and assessment procedures for entrepreneurship education to enhance self-employment among graduates of higher learning education in Tanzania. This is a qualitative study that applied a mixed-method approach utilizing interviews, observation, and document review in data collection.The study was done in Dar es Salaam City using bothpurposive and snowball chain sampling techniques whereby, 65 respondents participated in the study. The collected data were analysed using content analysis technique in which themes were generated and discussedin accordance with the research questions
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