Transformation of University Education for Graduate Employability in Nigeria: The Intervention of Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract

This paper beamed attention on the problem of unemployment among Nigeria University Education graduates. The present education practice churns out products that are heavily dependent on white-collar and blue-collar jobs; products that cannot use the education received to cull-out their innate propensities towards vocation and entrepreneurship. This development is traceable to the fact that the curricula predisposed to their consciousness are not deeply vocational-friendly. The paper articulated how entrepreneurship education could be used to transform university education for the employability of its products and synthesized the philosophy that should inform the thinking and action of university graduates in their entrepreneurial learning. In addition to recognizing the attempts made in this direction by successive governments and associated problems experienced, the paper recommended strategies that could provoke meaningful transformation of university education with entrepreneurial tinge.

Keywords: Transformation, Entrepreneurship, University Education, Employment, Nigeria.