Entrepreneurial potential of Science Education Curriculum: A Panacea for Graduate Self-Employment in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper focused on the potential of science education curriculum as a panacea for graduate self-employment in Nigeria. Entrepreneurship Education (EE) has emerge and been included into Nigerian Universities Curriculum as potent instrument for economic growth as experienced in other parts of the world. There are however, entrepreneurial skills inherent in the science education curriculum which this paper seeks to highlight that have lots of prospects for self-employment. While it cannot be argued that the introduction of entrepreneurship education can help students acquire skills for developing small business ventures, science education students can conveniently develop entrepreneurship from the effective coverage of science curricula. Even though there are critical challenges that could mitigate the actualization of such entrepreneurs, there are however a lot of prospects in the science education curricula. This paper recommends amongst others that: the teaching of science education should be more practically oriented than emphasizing theoretical constructs that students memorize and cannot be turned into business enterprises for poverty alleviation and economic development of Nigeria.