A stakeholder in the Nigerian education
sector has described entrepreneurship as the factor that separates theory from
practical. Mr. Olukunle Adeosun, representative of the permanent secretary of
the ministry of education, said this while speaking at the Second Junior Engineers,
Technicians and Scientists (JETS) competition of the School of Science, Pade.
He said: “It’s very pathetic how the Nigeria education
sector is churning out half backed graduates yearly, not because they didn’t
pass well or they didn’t know what they were thought in school, but simply
because they couldn’t apply the theory been learnt in school in real life scenario/situation.”
He called for an urgent
introduction of entrepreneurship at all levels of education so that students in
all secondary schools in Oyo state would from 2014, commence public examination
in entrepreneurship in line with the federal government’s policy on education which
is geared towards reducing unemployment in Nigeria.
He said: “The purpose of
introducing entrepreneurship education in secondary school is to empower
students to be self-reliant by the time they are leaving school; it would also
give them practical understanding of subjects thought, so that they can be
useful to their community.”
He added that Nigeria’s economy
could significantly improve if the nation embraces entrepreneurship just like
the developed nations of the world.
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