Entrepreneurship, Technical Education and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: An Overview

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Entrepreneurship, Technical Education and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: An Overview

Entrepreneurship, Technical Education and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: An Overview by Benjamin Chuka Osisioma

Traditional education has been said to be designed to produce good employees instead of good employers; so children spend years in schools, studying subjects they will never use, preparing for a world that no longer exists. The consequence is that there is a disconnect between the job requirements at the marketplace, and the skills of the Nigerian graduates. A system that incorporates entrepreneurship into technical and vocational education, offers an irresistible cocktail which will transform our schools into centres for skill acquisition, preparing graduates for employment in the workplace, and imbuing them with job-specific and employability skills that connect them with the business community. The challenge is to create a synergy between academia, business and government, establish thoroughly entrepreneurial institutions, and define an interlocking skill-set that will produce graduates that are leaders, managers, entrepreneurs and mentors. Finally our entrepreneurial model must go beyond the static to the dynamic, instilling the behavioral traits of financial, economic and business literacy, creativity and innovation skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills, communication and collaboration skills, cross-cultural and leadership skills, and Information and Media literacy.