“…Entrepreneurial mentoring is essential for aspiring students to develop entrepreneurial skills (Wilbanks, 2013). However, students often face obstacles such as a lack of mentorship (Hägg et al, 2023), funding (Singh Sandhu et al, 2011), experience (Ozen et al, 2023), difficulty in balancing schoolwork and running a business (Hartikainen et al, 2023), and insufficient networking opportunities with other businesspeople (Blažič, 2022). TVET lecturers, who are essentially upgraded lecturers from non-skilled education backgrounds, may find entrepreneurial mentoring challenging and time-consuming, potentially distracting them from their teaching and research responsibilities (Stephen & Festus, 2022).…”