This paper explores Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as a promoter of entrepreneurship prospects – emphasizing the significance of TVET as an entrepreneurship skills facilitator, promoting individuals’ ultimate aspirations of improving their socioeconomic living conditions and general development. This paper focused on ETAHT TVET programmes – designed explicitly for returnee migrants as a case study. Applying a qualitative research method approach – this paper collected and analyzed primary and secondary data from research participants and key informants. This paper asserts that contemporary TVET programmes play a significant role in equipping individuals with both TVET and entrepreneurship skills required for productive usage and commercial gains by an entrepreneur, thus facilitating individuals' (entrepreneurs’) development and economic growth.
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