Abstract
The study was carried out to determine the improvement needs of TVET practitioners for digital
entrepreneurship through social networking. Three research questions guided the study while two null
hypotheses were tested at p ≤ 0.05 level of significance. Description survey research design was
adopted for the study. The population for the study was 770 TVET enterprises and the proportionate
sampling techniques was used to select 10% of the population giving a sample size of 77 TVET in
Nsukka metropolises. Data was collected using structured questionnaire. The data collected were
analyzed using grand and standard deviation for answering the research questions while ANOVA was
used for testing the null hypotheses. Findings of the study revealed that most TVET practitioners have
high awareness level on the use of social Networking for entrepreneurship, however highly need
improvement skills in the use of social networks for enterprise advertisement and in networking with
professionals online for entrepreneurial information. The results of the hypotheses showed that there
is a significant difference in the mean ratings of TVET practitioners on the awareness level on social
Networking for entrepreneurship and a further post hoc, using Duncan test showed that the source of
the difference was from welding enterprise practitioners. However, the study showed that there was
no significance difference in the mean responses of the practitioners on the improvement skill needs
on networking professionals online for expert entrepreneurial information. The study therefore,
recommended that TVET centres should organize training and workshop for TVET Practitioners on
the identified improvement Skill needs.
Keywords: TVET Practitioners, Digital Entrepreneurship, Social Networking and
TVET practice
Publication Date: 2018-06-09