Entrepreneurship education adaption in tertiary institutions for sustainable development goals attainment in Nigeria

Abstract

Entrepreneurship education is the training designed to develop and encourage entrepreneurial abilities and capabilities of students. It is  an educational programme designed for the training of individual learners for the acquisition of skills. It is also defined as the process of  combining all factors of production in the right proportion to generate a great out-put and make profit. This paper takes a critical look at entrepreneurship education adaptation in tertiary institutions for sustainable development goals attainment in Nigeria. It lays emphasis  on the important role entrepreneurship education could play in reducing graduate unemployment, poverty, high crime rate , prostitution,  kidnapping, banditry, cultism and political thuggery. Entrepreneurship education should be a panacea or a catalyst for  attainment of sustainable development goals in Nigeria. Higher education in Nigeria needs total overhauling, tinkering, and radical  changes to meet the needs of modern society. These changes or innovations should be in the area of organizational change, curriculum change, new educational policies, instructional material changes, and changes in methodology. The following suggestions are very  important in the achievement of sustainable development goals with the adaptation of entrepreneurship education in tertiary  institutions, curricula reforms which ensures that entrepreneurship education is fully adopted, entrepreneurship culture should be  fostered by the Nigerian society, youths should be encouraged and made to undertake entrepreneurship education, qualified manpower  should be employed to undertake the teaching of entrepreneurship education in our tertiary institutions, firms should be encouraged to  sponsor entrepreneurship education, and above all government should adequately fund entrepreneurship education.