ENHANCING BUSINESS EDUCATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AND TRANSFORMATION

Komolafe, Isaac Adeyemi & Aliu, Zainul Abideen

Abstract

The paper brought to limelight the concept of Business Education and its objectives. It highlighted the challenges as well as strategies for repositioning Business Education to promote security and economic transformation. It discusses the concept of national security, causes of national insecurity, and also the concept of national transformation.  So also ways by which Business Education can promote national security and transform the economy of a country were not left out. The paper concluded that it is the responsibility of the government to ensure that every child has access to functional education because it is the source of empowerment that every person needs to do away with social vices and as well contribute meaningfully to the national and economic growth of the country. Business Education as a skill based programme can help to alleviate social vices as well as assist to develop the country’s economy if reasonably planned and implemented. Hence, government at all levels should give needed attention to critical issues raised in the paper, it suggestedamong others that government should take the issue of Business Education as priority because of its importance to national security and economic development of the country. Therefore, matters affecting Business Education should be given needed attention. To this extent, government efforts should be geared towards changing the bias of the public towards Business Education