Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Skills of Science Education Students in Federal University of Technology Minna. Implication for Sustainable National Development in 21st Century

Abstract

This paper discusses the significance of entrepreneurship in Science Education, the vital issues involved in entrepreneurial in Science Education such as skills acquisition, youth empowerment, self-reliance and wealth creation. Entrepreneurship in Science education can be used for wealth creation, poverty reduction, ensuring social-economic empowerment, sustained self-national development. The planning, management and administration of Science education should refocus on the deliberate process of using formal and informal education to make it relevant life-long and functional by embracing entrepreneurship in Science Education to address the challenges of unemployment ad under-employment with its national consequences of poverty, insecurity, social unrest, school dropout, indiscipline in the society and schools, destruction and vandalization of public and private properties. The paper concluded with recommendation demanding the government to developmental strategies for individuals and nation’s commitment to the realization of the specific objectives of actualizing basic, functional and entrepreneurship in Science Education to address the issue of unemployment, poverty, reduction and national in securing in developing and under-developed countries of the world.