Abstract:
The major objective of this study was to investigate the challenges facing for TVET
graduate trainees to create their own business in Wag Himra Zone. Nowadays, most
of the TVET graduate trainees are not run their own business by their field of study
and they are not competitive to the outside industry. They are government
employment oriented and jobless rather than self-employment. This condition also
causes poverty in the nation. In order to achieve the objective of the study totally 204
sample respondents were involved in this research. These are 100 graduate
trainees, 45 trainers, 9 heads from Amhara credit and saving institution, from
technical and vocational enterprise development office, from TVET colleges and 42
from trainees’ families. In order to collect the data both simple random sampling and
availability sampling technique were employed. Both qualitative and quantitative
data were analyzed with descriptive and percentage instruments respectively. As the
findings of the study shows graduate trainees have no clear entrepreneur
awareness, there is Lack of selling and working space, shortage of training materials
and shortage of starting capital to create their own business. These were concluding
that the challenges faced for TVET graduate trainees’ would have negative impact
on their business creation. Hence it is recommended that, all colleges in Wag Himra
Zone and the concerned stakeholders should focus on the entrepreneurship training
and cooperative training. The Amhara credit and saving institution should also
simplify their loaning criteria and reduce their interest rare to the graduate trainees’.
All three wordas’ technical and vocational enterprise development offices also
allocate and facilitate enough working and selling place to the graduate trainees’
before they complete the training. As much as possible Amhara technical and
vocational enterprise development bureau also should be allocating enough budgets
to colleges.