A Study on Administrators’ Perception on Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Learning Institution

The purpose of this study is to analyze the Administrators’ perception towards Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Learning Institutions. The impact of entrepreneurship education factors on administrators’ perception towards entrepreneurship education in HLI have been studied with the help of primary data collected from the Heads of Departments (HODs) and Teachers who belongs to the Department of commerce and management from Arts and Science Colleges in Puducherry region were chosen. Data were collected using structured questionnaire and analyzed. The study used Mann whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test, Correlation and Regression analysis. This study explores the provision of entrepreneurship education at HLIs, with special reference to the Curriculum Development, Encouraging teachers and Support mechanisms, teaching and assessment methods to ascertain whether they are appropriately developed by administrators to prepare students for entrepreneurship as a career option. The findings of the study show that the encouraging teachers are influenced by Entrepreneurship Education when compared with Gender and Age. With regard to correlation analysis there is a low relationship between curriculum development, encouraging teachers by administrators, support mechanism for students’ new venture creation and overall administrators’ perception of entrepreneurial education. Multiple Regression analysis shows that the encouraging teacher towards entrepreneurship education is the most influencing factors of entrepreneurship education on administrators’ perception in HLI.