ENTREPRENEURIAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION REVOLUTION: A CATALYST FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Graduate unemployment is one of the greatest challenges that bedevil Nigeria, a nation endowed with enormous wealth in terms of human, mineral and natural resources. This paper stresses the importance of the revolution on entrepreneurship and vocational education curriculum which is a catalyst for solving unemployment problems and achieving a sustainable development. This papers argues that entrepreneurship and vocational education will provide students who are leaders of tomorrow with skills with which they can be self reliant because human resource through knowledge based capacity are the cornerstone for effective management and utilization of natural resources. The paper concludes that entrepreneurship and vocational education when engendered leads to employment generation, growth of the economy and promotes sustainable development. The paper recommended that educational institutions at all levels must inculcate and intensify the integration of entrepreneurship and vocational education into its curriculum systems