ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES: A TOOL FOR NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION (original) (raw)
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This paper focused on entrepreneurship education in Nigerian Universities as a recipe for national development in the 21st century. The sole aim of this paper was to highlight the place of entrepreneurial education in directing national development and possible challenges of entrepreneurial education. Entrepreneurial education was considered in this paper as the inculcation in the citizenry appropriate skills, habits and competences necessary for self and paid employments. Inadequate funding, man power shortage, among others was identified as the challenges of entrepreneurship education in Nigerian Universities. It was recommended that apart from improving the funding policy of the government, the Universities should strictly embrace and follow the entrepreneurship education policy of the federal government.
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An Exemplar of Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria: A Case Study.
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One of the challenges of higher education in Nigeria is the high rate of graduate unemployment. This has been attributed to a number of factors one of which is the gap that often exists between schoolimparted skills and skills required in the work environment. Many universities responded to this challenge by introducing general entrepreneurship education which has been running for quite a while. However, the unemployment rate among university graduates has remained on the increase. This suggests that the model of general entrepreneurship education in operation in the universities may not be effective in achieving the intended results. Of particular importance is the level of practical exposure as well as external industry linkages available to the programme. This paper therefore critically examines the general entrepreneurship education programme in a private university in Nigeria with a view to identifying opportunities for improvement. The study is carried out using both primary a...
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Higher Education Policy and Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria
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Graduate unemployment is one of the major economic crises facing the Nigerian state. The malaise has been exacerbated by the recent descent into economic recession. This paper x-rays, theoretically and empirically, the level of entrepreneurship education acquired in Nigerian universities, the strategies adopted and presents suggestions on how entrepreneurship education can be primed to serve as panacea for the graduate unemployment crisis . The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population consisted of 550 2014/2015 Business Education graduates of three state universities offering business education programme in south west geo-political zone of Nigeria (Ekiti state University, Ado-Ekiti, Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-iwoye Ogun state and Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode Ogun State). No sample was drawn; the entire population was studied. The instrument was a structured questionnaire, subjected to face and content validation by experts in entrep...
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As a result of current political, economic, and social influence of the global economic meltdown, many countries of the world have resolve to focus on their domestic economy so as to foster a sustainable and virile domestic economy that will be moderately resistant from the economic and financial strangling that may try to reoccur in the future. The recent global economic meltdown has brought to the limelight, as well as the reality, that the world is a global market.