Focusing Tertiary TVET Practices towards Entrepreneurship Development: A Viable Tool for Skill Acquisition and Self Reliance among Trainees and Graduates in Nigeria.

Abstract

It has been observed that tertiary education is no longer a ticket for graduates to secure employment in the labour market. The researchers observed that the graduates turned out from Nigeria technological institutions in the last five years lack the requisite entrepreneurship skills for self reliance and employment and this inhibits the graduates from being self-reliant. This requires young graduates to consider entrepreneurship development through skill acquisition for self reliance. In view of this therefore, this paper examined the role that Tertiary Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) practices plays towards entrepreneurship development through skills acquisition and self-reliance. It discusses the relationship between entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur in an enterprise. The paper unveiled the role played by skill acquisition towards enhancing self reliance among TVET graduates. The paper established the fact that skill acquisition has great importance towards entrepreneurship development through skill acquisition and self reliance among TVET graduates in Nigeria. The study made recommendations such as setting up a department of skill training and development by the federal ministry of education in every tertiary TVET institution, ensuring that more practical work is introduced to complement theory in institutions of learning so as to provide avenue for skill acquisition and self reliance to enhance entrepreneurship development among trainees and graduates in Nigeria.