The aim of this study was to highlight how a combination of TVET and entrepreneurship\neducation can be harnessed to address the problem of unemployment\nas well as underutilisation of human resources, in Lusaka Province,\nZambia, to foster sustainable social economic development. A questionnaire\nwas administered to TVET students. A representative sample of 480 respondents\nwas targeted. Interview respondents included TVET instructors, TVET\nadministrators, TVET government officers, Industry experts and parents of\nTVET learners. The sample was proportionately shared among the eight districts\nin Lusaka province. The study was conducted from April 2018 to March\n2019. This was a mixed methods research. Quantitative data was analysed using\nStatistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and qualitative data through thematic\napproach. The findings indicated that unemployment as well as underutilisation\nof human resources can be addressed by tapping into the entrepreneurial\nambitions of TVET Learners; encouraging, enticing and appealing to\nstudents by asking them to consider entrepreneurship as a vocation or career\npathway; offering entrepreneurship education to TVET learners; sensitisation\nand robust rollout of TVET and entrepreneurship education national wide\nthrough policy directives; and, developing appropriate curriculum to support\nthe awareness and recognition that TVET learners that acquire entrepreneur-\nship knowledge and skills are potential productive human resource for different\nindustry sectors to drive sustainable economic development.
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