Entrepreneurship Business Education Capabilities in Emerging Poverty Alleviation Programme in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper discussed to unveil the economic potentials in business education programme with emphasis on
educational and employability capabilities. Inspite of the high unemployment rate of graduates, some
scholars have encouraged effective implementation of business education curriculum objectives. The paper
made extensive use of these scholarly opinions that derive their basis from national education policy,
NCCE business education objective and the SIWES curriculum. The paper concluded that business
education programme curriculum has the capability of enhancing graduate self-employment to reduce
incidences of graduate unemployment in the country. The paper saw the importance of professionally
qualified business educators to teach and administer their programme for effective growth and
development. It was recommended among others that the challenge of quality business education
teachers need to be pursued with zeal to eliminate the presence of interlopers.