EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT STUDY OF STUDENT IN ENTERPRISE PROGRAM (SIEP) WEE YU GHEE.

To increase entrepreneurial skills and promote entrepreneurial culture among students, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan embarks on its signature program called ?Student In Enterprise Program?, commonly known as SIEP. This program requires students to complete a minimum of 10-day attachment at any chosen small and medium enterprise, in their first, second and third year of studies. SIEP is a contemporary beyond-classroom initiative which aims at developing entrepreneurship competencies among students. It integrates different learning pedagogies attained through observations, inquiries, hands-on experience, real life case studies and simulation. This research is done to gauge students? perception on SIEP; examine program effectiveness as well as determine the impact brought about by SIEP. Data was collected from students across multiple disciplines from different faculties. Significantly, findings show majority of the respondents reported positively on the attributes, skills and functional knowledge attained after SIEP. Several feedback was gathered over the administration of pre-SIEP and post-SIEP and some practical recommendations were forwarded by the students.