Entrepreneurship education adaption in tertiary institutions for sustainable development goals attainment in Nigeria

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Titel: Entrepreneurship education adaption in tertiary institutions for sustainable development goals attainment in Nigeria
Autoren: Iheoma, Emeka Martin, Igwe, Chisa Favour, Eneh , Catherine Chinelo
Quelle: African Journal of Educational Research and Development; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Conference Edition; 243
Verlagsinformationen: The Department of Educational Management, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 2024.
Publikationsjahr: 2024
Schlagwörter: Entrepreneurship, Tertiary, Education, Sustainable, Development, Goals, Attainment, Institution and Adaptation
Beschreibung: Entrepreneurship education is the training designed to develop and encourage entrepreneurial abilities and capabilities of students. It is an educational programme designed for the training of individual learners for the acquisition of skills. It is also defined as the process of combining all factors of production in the right proportion to generate a great out-put and make profit. This paper takes a critical look at entrepreneurship education adaptation in tertiary institutions for sustainable development goals attainment in Nigeria. It lays emphasis on the important role entrepreneurship education could play in reducing graduate unemployment, poverty, high crime rate , prostitution, kidnapping, banditry, cultism and political thuggery. Entrepreneurship education should be a panacea or a catalyst for attainment of sustainable development goals in Nigeria. Higher education in Nigeria needs total overhauling, tinkering, and radical changes to meet the needs of modern society. These changes or innovations should be in the area of organizational change, curriculum change, new educational policies, instructional material changes, and changes in methodology. The following suggestions are very important in the achievement of sustainable development goals with the adaptation of entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions, curricula reforms which ensures that entrepreneurship education is fully adopted, entrepreneurship culture should be fostered by the Nigerian society, youths should be encouraged and made to undertake entrepreneurship education, qualified manpower should be employed to undertake the teaching of entrepreneurship education in our tertiary institutions, firms should be encouraged to sponsor entrepreneurship education, and above all government should adequately fund entrepreneurship education. 
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Sprache: English
ISSN: 2006-5450
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Abstract:Entrepreneurship education is the training designed to develop and encourage entrepreneurial abilities and capabilities of students. It is an educational programme designed for the training of individual learners for the acquisition of skills. It is also defined as the process of combining all factors of production in the right proportion to generate a great out-put and make profit. This paper takes a critical look at entrepreneurship education adaptation in tertiary institutions for sustainable development goals attainment in Nigeria. It lays emphasis on the important role entrepreneurship education could play in reducing graduate unemployment, poverty, high crime rate , prostitution, kidnapping, banditry, cultism and political thuggery. Entrepreneurship education should be a panacea or a catalyst for attainment of sustainable development goals in Nigeria. Higher education in Nigeria needs total overhauling, tinkering, and radical changes to meet the needs of modern society. These changes or innovations should be in the area of organizational change, curriculum change, new educational policies, instructional material changes, and changes in methodology. The following suggestions are very important in the achievement of sustainable development goals with the adaptation of entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions, curricula reforms which ensures that entrepreneurship education is fully adopted, entrepreneurship culture should be fostered by the Nigerian society, youths should be encouraged and made to undertake entrepreneurship education, qualified manpower should be employed to undertake the teaching of entrepreneurship education in our tertiary institutions, firms should be encouraged to sponsor entrepreneurship education, and above all government should adequately fund entrepreneurship education.&nbsp
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