APPLICATION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION SKILLS TO NAVIGATE THE CHALLENGING ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT IN NIGERIA FOR PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT AND SURVIVAL
Abstract
The current economic trends in different nations including Nigeria have brought competitive business environment and new demands for business development. This means that graduates of business education programme require not just preparation for white collar jobs but both knowledge and skills for self- employment and self-reliance which are the required impetus for national development. In view of this, application of business education skills needed to navigate the challenging economic environment in Nigeriafor personal empowerment and survival was advocated. This paper, therefore, discusses how business education skills such as accounting, information communication and technology, telecommunication, distributive education, entrepreneurship education and office technology and management skills will help to navigate students’ ways out of poverty or unemployment for sustainable personal empowerment and survival. The study, therefore, concluded that Business Education programme offer its recipients, relevant skills which in turn help students to create employment opportunities for themselves to survive in the 21 st century workforce. It was recommended among others that, proper investment should be made towards building skills acquisition centres in all institutions offering business education programme so as to link theory to practice, thereby boosting their entrepreneurial skills.References
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