Educational system varies from
one country to another, depending on the needs goals, aspiration and philosophy
of education of the country in
question. Since education has been seen
as an instrument for scientific and technological development, almongst others,
the federal government of Nigeria on the national policy on education listed
five main national goals of her
education system among which are
- A united strong and self reliant nation
- A great dynamic economy from the on going vocational technical education and training is that form of education that leads to the acquisition of practical skills, which will enable an individual to be gainfully employed in a chosen occupation or become self reliant vocational technical education according to Raymond (2007) is about work and training for work . One of the goals of the technical and vocation education is stated
In the national
policy on education is to give training and impact the necessary skills to
individuals who shall be self reliant. It this goals is adequately achieved, it
would lead to a sustainable technological development whose total inducement is
for national development
Entrepreneurship
and enterprising behaviour are important
objective for education and life long learning policies in the European union
as a whole as well as an individual
member states. It is seen
as a source of flexibility and innovation as a creator of jobs for the economy and at the same time as
an interesting possibility for individual
development, fulfillment and citizenship. An
overview is given of the representation of entrepreneurship in innovation vocational and
higher education and of the views of students and teacher in these project.
Finally, these are presented concerning improvement in the development of
entrepreneurship and enterprising competencies by educational
innovation.