ENHANCING ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB

Abstract

Nigeria is a country blessed with enormous wealth, but larger proportion of the citizens live in abject poverty and face worsening unemployment. In a bid to mitigate the scourge of poverty and unemployment, several interventions and polices on poverty reduction had been initiated by various governments with the objectives of boosting industrial production and level of employment. For instance, vocational and technical subjects were introduced into the secondary school curriculum in order to address these problems. However it was discovered in the extant literature that the delivery mode of the aforementioned interventions have not really fulfilled their aims. Therefore, this study seeks to proffer solution to the workability of such interventions through the introduction of Entrepreneurship club into secondary school as case study. The study employed survey research methodology through the use of structured questionnaire. Data was collected from Teachers and students of 50 secondary schools in Ile Ife and analyse using SPSS 21 package. Before the intervention, the result showed that majority of the schools could not offer more than one trade subject especially the private schools because of inadequate resources to employ any other trade subject teacher schools, and lack of time as the curriculum is jam packed. After the intervention, entrepreneurial activities increase and were enhanced amongst students. The study concludes that entrepreneurship clubs provide a conduit by which students can access entrepreneurial resources, network with community entrepreneurs, and share ideas.