Entrepreneurship
education focuses on developing understanding and capacity for pursuit of
entrepreneurial behaviours, skills and attributes in widely different contexts.
It can be portrayed as open to all and not exclusively the domain of the
high-flying growth-seeking business persons. The propensity to behave
entrepreneurially is not exclusive to certain individuals. Different
individuals will have different mix of capabilities for demonstrating and
acquiring entrepreneurial skills, behavior and attributes. These behaviours can
be practiced, developed and learned; hence it is important to exposes all
students to entrepreneurship education.
Entrepreneurial skills and attitudes
provide benefits to society, even beyond their application to business
activity. As a matter of fact, personal qualities that are relevant
entrepreneurship such as creativity and a spirit of initiative can be useful to
everyone in their working responsibility and in their daily existence. Akpomi
(2008).
According
to Idike (2011), he noted that entrepreneurship Education is a new programme
introduced by NNC into Nigerian universities. It is aimed at equipping
graduates with entrepreneurial values, attitude and mental capacity for
creative thinking and innovate behavior that can provoke their venture spirit
to generate new ideas and ways of doing things. The progamme is timely
especially now that the rate of graduate unemployment is rising on a geometrical
progression. Time has therefore come for graduates to find ways of creating
jobs and generating wealth not only for themselves but also for others. This
can be facilitated through entrepreneurship education.
Entrepreneurship should be taught to
students in all disciplines in the institution. It is not out of place to say
that many business ideas emerge from non-business disciplines but are but are
often waved aside or ignored because students are not sufficiently educated in
the knowledge and skills required. Students have to avail themselves and use
the opportunity to break new grounds, develop new products or add value to
existing ones in addition to their degree.