CHALLENGES OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS’ EFFORTS IN PRODUCING RELIABLE AND SUSTAINABLE GRADUATE ENTREPRENEURS
Abstract
The expectations of the Federal Government for the compulsory introduction of entrepreneurship education to reduce unemployment, youth’s restiveness and other societal vices in all the programmes in the tertiary institutions in Nigeria seemed not to be yielding any positive result. This was evidently proved
with the recent pronouncement by the federal government to recruit 500,000 graduate teachers. Within 36 hours of the launch of the jobs’ website, 403, 523 applicants had registered successfully. This has shown that more than 80% of our graduates are unemployed. Could this be that compulsory entrepreneurship education introduced and taught at various disciplines in the tertiary institutions is just a mere statement and not a statement of facts? This paper is out to x-ray the factors hindering the tertiary institutions efforts from producing active and corporate graduate entrepreneurs as presumed by the federal government and suggest possible ways of overcoming the ugly situation
KEYWORDS: Challenges, Tertiary Institutions, Reliable, Sustainable, Unemployment, Graduate Entrepreneurs.
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