Current Volume 8
Entrepreneurship Education: Influence, Challenges and Approaches for Enhancement in Nigeria – An Emperical Review.
Abstract
Entrepreneurship education is largely observed as the engine of economic growth and development, a programme which is targeted to unfold students’ vocational potentials and equip learners with requisite skills needed for self-reliance and sufficiency. This paper seeks to unknot the influence, the challenge of Entrepreneurship education in Nigeria and approaches for enhancement. Three research questions guided the study. Results exposed that Entrepreneurship education influence, include (amongst others): Provision of knowledge to identify and take profitable opportunities; knowledge to find genuine growth; to decide which business sector to pursue; knowledge to think more independently; ability to earn as entrepreneur; knowledge to pursue change in free enterprises pursuit; creates access to helpful platforms, knowledge to enjoy more excitements in life, strategies to first to the market, knowledge for community development. The hurdles include (amongst others): low lecturers’ capacity; Government policy summersault; lack of vocational equipment; inadequate facilities; poor funding; inadequate training hours or periods; lack of continuity after the school years; half-baked entrepreneurship facilitators lack of financial aids from government to actualize the dream, lack of necessary infrastructures; lack of government political wills. etc. The approaches are: recruiting qualified teachers with appropriate knowledge; raising funds for financing Entrepreneurship education in schools and for youths’ establishment of business; dealing with poor power supply and security; providing adequate learning materials; facility/technology; provision of credit facility by banks; interest-free loans/funds by governments, financial institutions/NGOs; training/re-training of teachers; provision of adequate facilities; University Talent Identification Program, Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound, Knowledge Is Power Program and Provision of Supportive School Environment.
Keywords
Entrepreneurship Education, Self-Reliance and Reliance, Vocational Potentials
Citations
IRE Journals:
Eretan, Gbenga Ologbon , Omotoso, Kazeem Adekunle
"Entrepreneurship Education: Influence, Challenges and Approaches for Enhancement in Nigeria – An Emperical Review." Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 7 Issue 7 2024 Page 461-469
IEEE:
Eretan, Gbenga Ologbon , Omotoso, Kazeem Adekunle
"Entrepreneurship Education: Influence, Challenges and Approaches for Enhancement in Nigeria – An Emperical Review." Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 7(7)
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