Abstract

This paper was motivated by the findings of the study that investigated the contribution of entrepreneurship education to the development of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions among university students in Uganda(Oyugi, 2011) . The paper recognizes the development and the teaching of entrepreneurship courses in most universities in Uganda with the aim of rolling out students sufficiently equipped to become job creators. At a time efforts are being made to address graduate unemployment through mainstream training in entrepreneurial skills in post-primary and post-secondary education, this paper provides timely guidance on the entrepreneurial curriculum. In particular, the author poses, and attempts to respond to a basic question: do attendees of university level entrepreneurship courses perceive the courses as adequate to develop the self-efficacy and entrepreneurial zeal they need to start new ventures? The findings showed significant positive relationship between perceived entrepreneurship course content and self-efficacy and self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions. However, no significant relationship was established between perception of content and entrepreneurial intentions. Although the students perceived the content to have given them knowledge about business in general, they did not credit the content for creating entrepreneurship zeal among them which points to the gaps in the content. The gaps in the contents may be due to the fact that universities and business academics largely confine their attention to the functional disciplines of management and neglect the essence of entrepreneurship.