Knowledge skills and graduate attributes required for entrepreneurial education at higher education instutitions: A review of the literature

Ndileka Bala and Molose Thembisile
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Ndileka Bala: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
Molose Thembisile: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa

Journal of Advances in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 5, issue 4, 174-183

Abstract: South African Higher Eduction Instutitions (HEIs) are under emense pressure to equip graduates with the requisite knowledge, skills and attributes that would enable them to become highly entrepreneurial. Chief among the reasons for such pressures is that various education programmes, particularly tourism and hospitality that are awarded by HEIs do not reflect entrepreneurial knowledge skills and attributes that the South African government expect graduates to acquire which would make them become entrepreneurs in their fields. The role of HEIs in South Africa will become prominent as they will need to steer, design and build education curriculum that create not only highly employable graduates, but also a future of graduates that will create employment. It is important to identify which knowledge skills gap that need to be developed in tourism and hospitality management programmes of HEIs in order to prepare graduates for the knowledge economy and entrepreneurial development in the entire tourism industry. This paper looks to identify the skills, competencies, and behaviours that agile graudates require to succeed in an environment that is confronted by rising high unemployment and characterised by accelerated high levels of poverty. Hence, the more reasons to identify and understand important knowledge, behaviours and best practices within the knowledge domains of entrepreneurial education.

Keywords: Management education; Entrepreneurship; Programme evaluation; South Africa; Literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.20474/jahss-5.4.3

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