ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT AMONG TEACHERS’ TRAINEES IN UNIVERSITY OF CROSS RIVER STATE (UNICROSS), CALABAR

The purpose of this study was to investigate entrepreneurial training and social adjustment among teachers’ trainees in University of Cross River State, Calabar. Three research questions and three corresponding null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study was four thousand, four hundred and twenty three (4,423) teachers. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select three hundred (300) teachers out of the entire population as sample. Instrument for data collection was a twenty five (25) items questionnaire which was face validated by two experts in the field of Business Education and Measurement and Evaluation. Cronbach alpha and Simple Linear Regression with a co-efficient of 0.65, 0.72, 0.83 and 0.79 for B1, B2, B3 and B4 respectively. The three hundred (300) copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents and all retrieved. Simple Linear Regression was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the test of hypothesis showed that there is no significant influence of acquired management skills, acquired human relations skills and acquired communication skills on social adjustment among teacher trainees in University of Cross River State. It was recommended that the National University Commission (NUC) should ensure that the aforementioned skills are well spelt out in the general curriculum of university teachers; the university management should organize seminar from time to time in order to enlighten teachers on the need to acquire entrepreneurial skills before graduating from the university; the government should provide the enabling environment for teachers to practices the entrepreneurial skills they learnt by giving loans.