Entrepreneurship is interdisciplinary trainings that focus on the tools needed to start a new business or vocation. As the numbe...
Entrepreneurship is
interdisciplinary trainings that focus on the tools needed to start a new
business or vocation. As the number of unemployment among youths keeps rising globally,
it is imperative that entrepreneurship trainings be strengthened at Basic Education to encourage self-reliance.
Skill acquisition on the other hand, is the ability to be
trained on a particular task or function in order to become expert on it. It is
a means of making the youths self-reliant as it helps to curb
unemployment among youths. Uduak Ekong and Christian Ekong (2016) citing
Ogundele, Akingbade and Akinlabi agree that skill acquisition and
entrepreneurship in schools in the past reduced poverty among youths. This was
when handiwork or craft was introduced as a subject in primary and secondary
school levels. Skill acquisition and
entrepreneurship trainings contribute a lot to the economic enlistment of
students by making them self-reliant. Realizing the benefits of handiwork among
students, skill acquisition was introduced on a more mechanized and
modernized level. This no doubt led to the reduction of poverty among youths
who participated in the skill acquisition programs.
According to UNESCO
(2015), Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aims at promoting sustainable development for economic growth and survival. ESD is therefore an education that allows every human being to acquire
knowledge, skill, attitudes and values necessary to shape a sustainable future.
A call for sustainability and self-reliance entails the principle of
strengthening entrepreneurship at basic formal education for life-long learning. These are practical knowledge, values and skills needed for a sustainable way of life.
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Strengthening
entrepreneurship training to enhance skill acquisition and capacity building
into basic education system would ensure eradication of unemployment. The
program would help students to be self-reliant during their trainings and after
graduation.