Creating Jobs and Reducing Unemployment among Nigerian University Graduates through Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract

Unemployment as a global phenomenon is on the increase especially in Nigeria.The rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria is put at 54% of the population [21].It is also pertinent to note that this problem cannot be totally eradicated or solved but can be drastically reduced to its barest minimum through continious education and the acquisition of entrepreneural skills.Education is said to be the gradual acquisition of knowlwedge which is integrative in nature.Education as an on-going process does not end with acquisition of knowledge.The knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and competencies acquired must be constantly updated and stimulated through practical experiences and experiments.The practicality of the acquired knowledge births creativity and enterprise skills in the individual.This experiencial knowledge gives the individual an added advantage for better understanding and improvement thereby promoting his self esteem, self-efficacy and self confidence.It is believed that the co-curricullar character developed in the process of experiencing and experimenting makes the graduate to be bold enough to further venture into more risk by establishing a business of his/her own.All these will culmunate into the employability of the youth either by being more employable or being self employed.Also, all these reduce the rate of unemployment.

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