FACILITY PLANNING ISSUES IN BUSINESS EDUCATION: IMPLICATION FOR COMBATING UNEMPLOYMENT AND YOUTH RESTIVENESS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper was to investigate facilityplanning issues in business education and its implications for combating unemployment and youth restiveness in Nigeria. The paper identified some of the causes of unemployment and youth restiveness to include lack of humanitarian and social welfare, lack of good governance, corrupt practices of government officials, inadequate training programmes and lack of quality education in Nigeria. The paper observed that to combat unemployment and youth restiveness in Nigeria a functional business education is a viable tool. The paper also observed that combating unemployment and youth restiveness could be impossible because business education in Nigeria lacks the stipulated facilities for effective teaching and learning due to lack of policy guidelines for infrastructural development in schools, low level of funding, lack of qualitative and quantitative information on facilities and poor maintenance culture. The paper concluded that if Nigeria desires to combat unemployment and youth restiveness, facility planning inbusiness education should be accorded priority. It is therefore suggested among others that the different levels of government should address the issue of development and implementation of minimum standards for facilities development and management in allthe schools and institutions