ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: A PANACEA FOR CURBING GRADUATE UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA
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2015
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the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (IISES)
Abstract
The biggest challenges of Nigeria today are youth unemployment. Nigeria, being the giant of Africa
has the largest number of youths who are yet to be properly mobilized and empowered for gainful
economic activities. This can only be tackled through entrepreneurship education which involves
teaching and learning of the needed skills and knowledge that equip one to become self-reliant
through being an effective and successful initiator, manager, innovator and risk bearer of business
undertakings. Unemployed youths should be encouraged to acquire skills that will be applied to
economic activities on graduation from requisite compulsory training while those who are still in
school should be made to offer entrepreneurship courses that would prepare them to embark on
small and medium-scale enterprises, which have significant roles to play in the development of any
economy. Therefore, this paper discusses entrepreneurship education and unemployment reduction
in Nigeria, problems facing entrepreneurship education and its graduate and ways of addressing
this problem so that our national and human resources will be properly employed for economic
emancipation, so as to turn our youths into job creators and not job seekers.
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NGOZI NWABUFO, JOSHUA MAMMAN (2015). Entrepreneurship education: a panacea for curbing graduate unemployment in Nigeria. International Journal of Teachnig and Education, Vol. III(3), pp. 68-74.