STRATEGIES FOR REVITALIZING THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN

TECHNICAL, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

AND TRAINING (TVET) TO ENCHANCE

SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA

Name: - Norain binti Md Yaman

- Salasiah Binti Salang

- Nuradilah Binti Zulkifli

Lecture Group : L7T3

SUMMARY The study was carried out to determined strategies for revitalizing the

implementation of entrepreneurship education in Technical, Vocational

Education, and Training (TVET) to enhance self-employment in Nigeria. To

analyzed the data collected, mean and standard deviation are used.

An entrepreneur is stated as someone who organizes, manages and

assumes the risk of a business or enterprise by Russel (2008). While,

according to Susan (2013), an entrepreneur is a person who starts a new

business ventures based on totally new ideas and new ways of doing things or

try to develop those idea into profit making business.

Entrepreneurship education is the form of education designed for the

learner to become an entrepreneur. It also an approach to stimulate students

to be excited and creative. It will makes them confident with their strength and

weakness. At the school curriculum, it ensure that each learner has a chance

to become an entrepreneur and the student is the architect.

Besides that, the education which

provides individuals with skills,

knowledge and attitudes for effective

employment in a specific occupation is

called Technical, Vocational education

and Training (TVET). It provide the

recipients with the basic knowledge

and practical skills that are needed for

entry the world of work as employees

or self-employed.

Introduction

Entrepreneurship education is the form of education designed for the learner to become an entrepreneur.

approach to stimulate students to be curious and creative.

Entrepreneurship education in a school curriculum ensures that each learner has a chance to become an entrepreneur and each student is the architect of his/her fortune

DISCUSSION

These aims of entrepreneurship

education can be achieved through

Technical, Vocational Education and

Training (TVET).

TVET is type of education which

provides individuals with skills,

knowledge and attitudes for effective

employment in a specific occupation.

There is need to revitalize the

implementation of entrepreneurship

education in TVET to increase the

number of Small and Medium Scale

Enterprises (SMEs) and reduce

unemployment.

The following research questions guided the study:

1) What are the strategies for revitalizing entrepreneurship education implementation in TVET? 2) What are the basic entrepreneurship skills for self-employment?

3) What are the challenges of revitalizing entrepreneurship education implementation?

The study was conducted using descriptive survey research design.

uses questionnaire, interview, observations to determine the opinions, attitudes, preferences and perceptions of persons.

The study was carried out in South-East, South-West, North-East and North-Central geo-political zones of Nigeria.

findings

entrepreneurship education in TVET

programmes will attract the graduates

to go into self- employment.

Increase in the number of Small and

Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will

eventually reduce unemployment and

its attendant social vices like

kidnaping.

conclusion

TVET and entrepreneurship education

are complementary.

A graduate of Technical, Vocational

Education and Training without

entrepreneurship skills will end up

looking for non-existent paid

employment.

RECOMMENDATION

Adequate infrastructural facilities, enabling enrolment that support and encourage entrepreneurship development should be provided by the government to encourage people to go into self-employment.

Entrepreneurship training should be encouraged for individual empowerment and self- employment.

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