Abstract:
This study was designed to identify the Entrepreneurial competencies required by Technical College Drafting graduates in the area of Technical, Managerial, Financial/Marketing and general Personal attributes competencies for establishing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Plateau State. The study sought answers to four research questions and tested four null hypotheses. The population of the study consisted of 89 comprising 11 Teachers of Drafting for the three Technical Colleges in Plateau state and 78 Draftsmen of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises. No sampling was carried out since the population was of manageable size. The instrument was validated by five experts and Cronbach Alpha Reliability Coefficient was used to determine the internal Consistency of the instrument. The instrument yielded a reliability Coefficient of 0.83. Mean statistic and standard Deviation, were used to answer the four research questions while the four null hypotheses were tested using t – test at 0.05 level of Significance. The major findings of the study were that: Technical College Drafting Graduates Required Eighteen technical competencies twenty managerial competencies, Nineteen Financial/marketing competencies and Sixteen general personal attributes competencies for establishing Small and Medium Scale enterprises in plateau state. It was recommended that Government and administrators of technical Colleges should organize Seminar and workshop for Teachers of Drafting so as to enable them effectively teach the required competencies to students. Also it was recommended that the identified competencies should be integrated into the curriculum of technical Colleges.
