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  A Study on the Impact of Online Education in Building up the Career with reference to Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu

  Manoj M.

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  Vol.9 , Issue.2 , pp.1-7, Jun-2021

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  Online Education has been better utilized in the competitive world for training activities and at the specific level for educational purposes. With the advent of Internet technology, the advancement of education has made us global students who gain wisdom from diverse sources and servers. One of the major applications of Internet is E-Learning that can transform the effective platforms of education. It institutes digital classroom for anywhere & anytime and the term E-learning is widely accepted for E-education. The Academic excellence of Higher education institutions can be maintained and upgraded to a certain level through E-Learning system with different domain knowledge. The Government of India has now been considering the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a means for new emerging programmes and courses for various domain specific aspects. Various statistical analyses are used to know about the dependent and independent variables used in the study of research. Data collection is done through Google forms and it helps us to know about respondent’s idea on the online education. Various findings are attained through the data collection of the survey to get the suggestions for this study.

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  Applications, Online learning, digital classroom, E-education, & Emerging programmes

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  Manoj M., "A Study on the Impact of Online Education in Building up the Career with reference to Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu," World Academics Journal of Management, Vol.9, Issue.2, pp.1-7, 2021

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  Influence of Entrepreneurial Education on Unemployment Reduction among Students in Nigeria

  Jacobs Chineze J., Ezeokafor Uche R., Ekwere Gabriel E.

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  Vol.9 , Issue.2 , pp.8-15, Jun-2021

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  The study examined the influence of entrepreneurial education on unemployment reduction among students in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbaria. The problem of the study originated from an increasing rate of unemployment in Nigeria. The study was moored on Human Capital Theory and Risk Taking Theory. A cross-sectional survey research design was used for the study with a structured five (5) points likert scale instrument was used to obtain information from the respondents. The population of the study was limited only to final year students of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship Studies Department in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam. The total population was 195. Business administration was 128 while entrepreneurship was 67. The study used convenience sampling technique in selecting the sample size. Research hypotheses were tested using Multiple Regression Analysis (MRA) which was carried out with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Findings from the study revealed that Skill acquisition has significant influence on unemployment reduction, Entrepreneurship empowerment affects unemployment reduction, while Infrastructural development has significant infliuence on unemployment reduction in Anambra State. The study recommended that Entrepreneurial education in tertiary institutions should be practical oriented rather than theory as this will exposed the students to various lucrative skills. Government should provide a means of getting loans by small scale business owners in order to enhance the activities of small scale business and boost youth employment in Nigeria.

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  Entrepreneurial Education, Unemployment Reduction, Human Capital Theory, risk taking theory, Infrastructural development, Entrepreneurship empowerment

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  Jacobs Chineze J., Ezeokafor Uche R., Ekwere Gabriel E., "Influence of Entrepreneurial Education on Unemployment Reduction among Students in Nigeria," World Academics Journal of Management, Vol.9, Issue.2, pp.8-15, 2021