A systematic review of entrepreneurship education in higher education as panacea to unemployment reduction in South African graduates

Abstract

This discursive study explores the attempt to create feasible job creations for young graduates from various higher education institutions across South Africa. A systematic review of various literature sources on the phenomenon argues that entrepreneurship education can create and develop in students creative and innovative, business initiatives, risk-taking, strategic business minds, appropriate decision-making, and opportunities in diverse entrepreneurship activities, after graduation. The integration of entrepreneurship education into higher education across South African Higher Education will boost national economic development. The existing Department of Higher Education's initiative of Entrepreneurship Development into the country's Higher Education requires assessment and repositioning for effective approaches that can actualize the objectives of the initiative. The study recommends the need for universities' managements to re-strategise and connect theory with practical, in diverse significant collaborations with various private businesses, government institutions, and Non-Governmental Organisations.

Keywords: {'name': 'Entrepreneurship Education, unemployment, job creation, economic development, higher education'}

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Oluwatoyin Ayodele Ajani
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Mirriam R. Khumatake
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Bongani T. Gamede
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