Entrepreneurship Education as Panacea For Youth Unemployment: Implication Of Vocational Counselling For Sustainable National Development

Abstract

One of the many pressing challenges facing Nigeria today is youth unemployment with the ripple effect of their resort to violent crimes. The concern of many educationists and the public in general is to encourage youths to engage in useful livelihood. This paper x-rayed the promotion of entrepreneurship education and vocational counselling in eradicating youth unemployment in the society. An attempt has been made to look at entrepreneurship education based on the goal of the newly introduced senior secondary education curriculum enriched with the aims and objectives of Vocational Counselling. It was concluded that guiding the young people to pursue the right type of entrepreneurship education through effective and continuous vocational counselling is a sure way of eradicating unemployment and will build a more prosperous and advanced country. Some recommendations towards improving entrepreneurship education were also made.

Key words: Unemployment, Entrepreneurship Education, Vocational Counselling, Sustainable Development