Are the Teachers and Students Satisfied: Sustainable Development Mode of Entrepreneurship Education in Chinese Universities?

Abstract

Entrepreneurship education plays an important role in sustainable development. Chinese governmental agencies are making all-out efforts to promote schoolwide entrepreneurship education from top to bottom to achieve sustainable economic and social development. This is a phenomenon worth studying and summarizing. Improving the satisfaction degree of teachers and students of entrepreneurship education in universities for sustainable development becomes a typical mode of entrepreneurship education in Chinese universities. The data are derived from 12,269 valid questionnaires in student volume and 1,241 valid questionnaires in teacher volume from top universities in China, and regression and variance analyses were applied. The results show that the overall satisfaction of teachers and students is higher than the national average. There are significant differences in the overall satisfaction of different types of teachers and students. Teachers are most satisfied with the organizational leadership measures of the universities in entrepreneurship education and least satisfied with the lack of professional human resource management strategies for entrepreneurship education teachers. Students are most satisfied with entrepreneurship policy and least satisfied with entrepreneurship learning, especially that entrepreneurship theory learning and practice learning are closely combined with students’ majors. The overall satisfaction of students of entrepreneurship education mainly comes from the influence of “entrepreneurship policy dividend,” entrepreneurship learning, and entrepreneurship competition and entrepreneurship practice, which go hand in hand. The overall satisfaction of teachers is most affected by the satisfaction of organizational leadership, followed by the satisfaction of mechanism guarantee and teaching management. This study introduces the sustainable development model of entrepreneurship education in top Chinese universities through the improvement of satisfaction of entrepreneurship education and has certain reference significance for managers and teachers of entrepreneurship education practice in other developing countries.

The Role of Entrepreneurship Policy in College Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention: The Intermediary Role of Entrepreneurial Practice and Entrepreneurial Spirit

“…Previous research shows that students are dissatisfied with entrepreneurship learning, especially with how entrepreneurship theory learning and practice are combined with their majors ( Huang et al, 2020 ). In the establishment of innovation and EE systems and the design of entrepreneurship courses, attention should be paid to the integration of textbook knowledge and practical experience, thus handling the contradiction between the discontinuity of tacit knowledge, entrepreneurial experience, and the continuity of classroom teaching requirements.…”

How Entrepreneurship Education at Universities Influences Entrepreneurial Intention: Mediating Effect Based on Entrepreneurial Competence

“…Entrepreneurship practice support follows Greefs (1998), Zou and Zhao (2014), and Huang et al (2020) and we measure four indicators on a 5-point scale: "Entrepreneurial practice is supported by a special entrepreneurial fund, " "the school provides integrated entrepreneurial practice services, " "entrepreneurial practice has a special off-campus practice base, " and "entrepreneurial practice projects are highly integrated with professional learning" (1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree). The reliability of α is 0.943.…”

Effect of Teachers’ Knowledge Sharing Behavior on Students’ Entrepreneurial Motivation in Social Media Environment

“…Fejes, A regarded that teachers should strengthen entrepreneurship education in teaching, and sharing entrepreneurship stories and knowledge through social media can effectively stimulate students' entrepreneurial motivation [21]. Huang, Y studied the effect of entrepreneurship education on teachers' and students' satisfaction in Chinese colleges and universities [22]. The results show that entrepreneurship education plays an important role in China's sustainable development, but teachers' lack of entrepreneurial experience and knowledge sharing lead to the unclear entrepreneurial motivation of students.…”