ENTREPRENUERSHIP EDUCATION: AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN EKITI STATE:

Keywords: Keywords: Entrepreneurship education, Sustainable, Development and Nigeria

Abstract

The study was carried out by the researcher in Ekiti State to determine how entrepreneurship

education could be a source for achieving sustainable development. A survey research design

was used for the study. The population comprised 30business educators teaching in public

Universities offering Business Education in Ekiti State. A self-structured questionnaire was

adopted by the researcher for data collection. The result of the study showed that

entrepreneurship education programme is an indispensable tool for achieving sustainable

development in Ekiti State because it provides the needed manpower required in all sectors. The

study equally revealed that one of the strategies for achieving sustainable development in Ekiti

State is through entrepreneurship education programme which ensure that the school curriculum

is relevant to the skills required in all sectors of the economy such as: industries, education,

agriculture. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher recommended among others that

the curriculum planners should ensure that the school curriculum content is relevant to the skills

required of industries because of the relevance of the programme in providing the needed

manpower in all sectors of the economy.

ENTREPRENUERSHIP EDUCATION: AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN EKITI STATE