Building a Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria

Oguntimehin, Y. A.; Nwosu, Jonathan Chinaka

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“…This was also asserted in a study conducted by (Oguntimehin, Y.A. and Nwosu, J.C., 2014) title "Building a Sustainable Development Through Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria" that man is created with certain potentialities with an inbuilt personality traits.…”

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Impact of Entrepreneurship, Vocational and Technical Education on NCE Graduating Students to be Self-employed in Some Selected COE in the North East, Nigeria

2019

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Entrepreneur education was introduced into higher institutions curriculum to expose students to various trades that students will be willing to engage after graduation to reduce unemployment to a bearable rate in the country. It's on this premise that this research is set to assess the Impact of Entrepreneurship and Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) on NCE Graduating students to be self-employed in three selected Colleges of Education in the North East, consisting of Aminu Saleh College of Education Azare Bauchi state, Federal College of Education (technical) Potiskum, Yobe State and Federal College of Education (technical) Gombe, Gombe State. The objectives of the study being to; assess whether entrepreneurship and VTE education has equipped graduating students with needed business skills that would make them self-employed and Whether the personality traits of graduating students have impact on their willing to become self-employed. Based on this, research questions and hypotheses were formulated. The population of the study comprises NCE graduating students of the three teacher training institutions in the north eastern part of the Nigeria. The methodology employed is survey design where copies of self -administered questionnaires with five points Likard scale was administered to the graduating students through combine simple and stratified random technique. Descriptive statistics: simple percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions raised, while chi-square statistics was used to test the two hypotheses formulated. The findings of the study shows that, NCE graduating students believes that entrepreneurship education and VTE courses equipped the graduated students of School of VTE with needed business skills that would make them self-employed and, Students' personality traits have a clear association on the present employment status of graduating students. It was recommended among others that Government at State and Federal level should come up with programs that would provide practical training to graduating students to argument the theory leant in the class and provide them with resources (financial and/or otherwise) to enhance their skills in planning, starting and managing a small business under a close supervision.

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Impact of Entrepreneurship, Vocational and Technical Education on NCE Graduating Students to be Self-employed in Some Selected COE in the North East, Nigeria

2019

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“…Some of the characteristics of entrepreneurship include-ability to take a risk, innovation, curiosity, visionary and leadership quality, persistence, hardwork, self-confidence, and flexibility. Oguntimehin and Nwosu (2014) opined that any society that desires sustainable development cannot do away with entrepreneurship because it creates new technologies, production and services, encourages improved productivity and rapid economic growth. Ezeribe (2020) asserts that anyone who maximizes profit through innovative strategies, new products or services is therefore considered to be an entrepreneur.…”

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“…Corroborating this fact, Okoh (2014) points out that the training and education which the students of higher institutions in Nigeria are exposed to do not fit into the demands of the labour market and as such these students are not employable at graduation. The inherited colonial educational policy and subsequent reforms after independence had not been able to equip most of our school products to become self-employed or employable (Oguntimehin and Nwosu 2014). Put in another way this structural imbalance rendered many graduates of Nigerian higher institutions unemployable and hopeless.…”

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The Role of Guidance and Counselling in Ensuring Effective Entrepreneurship Education for the Eradication of Graduate Unemployment

Ezeribe

2022

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The paper examines the role of guidance and counselling in ensuring effective entrepreneurship education which will help in the eradication of graduate unemployment. The inclusion of entrepreneurship education in the curriculum of tertiary institutions by the Federal Ministry of Education was intended to make graduates to be self-employed and job creators thereby reducing unemployment in Nigeria. Despite this introduction for all these years, unemployment seems to be on the increase. The value of entrepreneurship education does not seem to have sufficiently impacted on them Based on this, the question arises: why the entrepreneurship education given to our students is not yielding the required result which is job creation? This work is based on cognitive counselling theory. The data was collected through literature review and it was found out that there is a strong positive relationship between career counselling and entrepreneurial development skills which reduce unemployment. It was concluded that for graduate unemployment to be eradicated in Nigeria, the counsellors must ensure that effective entrepreneurship education is put in place. The paper finally recommends the introduction of a course on entrepreneurship education counselling which should precede the main general course on entrepreneurship education in all tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

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“…This is because its emphasis is on the acquisition of skills and capacities to be self-employed. Entrepreneurship activity has being a dynamic process of creating incremental wealth, wealth created by individuals who assume the major risks in terms of equity, time and/or career commitment or provide value for some product or service (Oguntemehin and Nwosu, 2014). Entrepreneurship in education is nothing new; it is as old as education itself.…”

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Entrepreneurship Education and the Challenges of Graduate Employability in Nigeria

Nwosu¹

2018

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Entrepreneurship education has been identified as a major means of assisting youths and even adult to acquire desired skills and capacities to be self-reliant or self-employed, particularly to prepare them to be able to set up their own ventures and manage them profitably. Hence, there is a great need to look at the challenges in Entrepreneurship education in Nigerian universities and proffer solutions to the identified problems. The study adopted a review methodology approach of extant literatures and publications in the last decade. The study revealed that there are several factors impeding the success of entrepreneurship education in Nigeria, which might be affecting the production of employable graduates in our universities. The study provided a panacea that will help improve entrepreneurship education in Nigeria, and create graduates that will not only be job seekers, but will be job makers in Nigeria. Conclusively, the study also, suggested areas for further studies based on the limitation of the study.

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Building a Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria

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Impact of Entrepreneurship, Vocational and Technical Education on NCE Graduating Students to be Self-employed in Some Selected COE in the North East, Nigeria

Impact of Entrepreneurship, Vocational and Technical Education on NCE Graduating Students to be Self-employed in Some Selected COE in the North East, Nigeria

The Role of Guidance and Counselling in Ensuring Effective Entrepreneurship Education for the Eradication of Graduate Unemployment

Entrepreneurship Education and the Challenges of Graduate Employability in Nigeria

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