ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: A VEHICLE FOR EMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT GENERATION
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This paper addresses entrepreneurship education a vehicle for employment and employment generation in Nigeria. Low level of economic activities of a nation leads to low level of job creation. Sourcing an alternative way of improving economic activities and human resources development will improve the level of employment generation in the country. In Nigeria, economic activities are strangulated which leads to low employment opportunities. There is the need therefore, to find alternative means of improving economic activities for human resources development and employment generation. The state of the economy does not favour or guarantee job creation and reduction of unemployment, especially in a situation where the country’s economy is based on government budgetary allocations. The paper explains the concept of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, benefits and the objectives of entrepreneurship education. It also lays emphasis how entrepreneurship educationcould help in employment generationin Nigeria. The paper recommends that Government should adopt a policy that will allow graduates of entrepreneurship education programme to have access to soft loans from financial institutions with little or no interest at all, so that they can establish their business enterprises with ease.
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