Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian Universities: A Tool For National Transformation
Nigeria is faced with myriad of problems among which are graduate unemployment, poverty, crime, and other social vices, which are as a result of economic meltdown or unsustainable development in the country, which needs urgent attention. In order to overcome this menace, this position paper exami...
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| author | Olorundare, Adekunle Solomon Kayode, David Jimoh |
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| description | Nigeria is faced with myriad of problems among which are graduate
unemployment, poverty, crime, and other social vices, which are as a result of economic
meltdown or unsustainable development in the country, which needs urgent attention. In
order to overcome this menace, this position paper examines the nature and concept of
entrepreneurship education and its application for graduates of Nigerian universities. The
specific impact of entrepreneurship education on the society for national transformation
among which are the provision of employment opportunities, increase in Gross Domestic
Product (GDP), improved standard of living as well as under-dependency on white collar
job by the universities’ graduates are discussed. The paper comes up with a model of how
public and private partnership can be enhanced through entrepreneurship education in
Nigerian universities towards national transformation. The challenges of entrepreneurship
education which include inadequate trainers or little knowledge of entrepreneurship by
the universities’ lecturers, inadequate fund for the program by the universities
administrators as well as challenges in the area of curriculum development and
implementation were also pointed out and recommendations were made on how such
challenges can be overcome towards the practical realisation of entrepreneurship
education in our higher institutions. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-347622017-05-31T01:21:43Z http://eprints.usm.my/34762/ Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian Universities: A Tool For National Transformation Olorundare, Adekunle Solomon Kayode, David Jimoh LB2300 Higher Education Nigeria is faced with myriad of problems among which are graduate unemployment, poverty, crime, and other social vices, which are as a result of economic meltdown or unsustainable development in the country, which needs urgent attention. In order to overcome this menace, this position paper examines the nature and concept of entrepreneurship education and its application for graduates of Nigerian universities. The specific impact of entrepreneurship education on the society for national transformation among which are the provision of employment opportunities, increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), improved standard of living as well as under-dependency on white collar job by the universities’ graduates are discussed. The paper comes up with a model of how public and private partnership can be enhanced through entrepreneurship education in Nigerian universities towards national transformation. The challenges of entrepreneurship education which include inadequate trainers or little knowledge of entrepreneurship by the universities’ lecturers, inadequate fund for the program by the universities administrators as well as challenges in the area of curriculum development and implementation were also pointed out and recommendations were made on how such challenges can be overcome towards the practical realisation of entrepreneurship education in our higher institutions. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/34762/1/Art_10%28155-176%29.pdf Olorundare, Adekunle Solomon and Kayode, David Jimoh (2014) Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian Universities: A Tool For National Transformation. The Asia Pacific Journal of Educators and Education (formerly known as Journal of Educators and Education), 29 (1). pp. 1-22. ISSN 2289-9057 http://apjee.usm.my/APJEE_29_2014/Art%2010(155-176).pdf |
| spellingShingle | LB2300 Higher Education Olorundare, Adekunle Solomon Kayode, David Jimoh Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian Universities: A Tool For National Transformation |
| title | Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian
Universities: A Tool For National
Transformation |
| title_full | Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian
Universities: A Tool For National
Transformation |
| title_fullStr | Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian
Universities: A Tool For National
Transformation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian
Universities: A Tool For National
Transformation |
| title_short | Entrepreneurship Education In Nigerian
Universities: A Tool For National
Transformation |
| title_sort | entrepreneurship education in nigerian universities a tool for national transformation |
| topic | LB2300 Higher Education |
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