By Abosede Ajala.
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Fear of the unknown has crippled many who are supposed to be seen as frontline entrepreneurs, hence the need for teaching, that is entrepreneurship education. This owes to the fact that education is important to the development of any society particularly in the areas of setting the goals of wealth creation, poverty reduction and value re-orientation which can only be attained and sustained through an efficient educational system that can impact relevant skills, knowledge, capacities, attitudes and values into society/people/individuals.
In the same vein, governments and educators of developing nations such as Kenya, Tanzania, Columbia, and Trinidad and Tobago now re-aligned their educational systems towards the popular national and international support for vocational education as a viable option to tackle the growing concern of graduate/youth.
At this junction, our educational system in Nigeria needs to look inward and check through the introduction of various programmes earmarked for the teaching of entrepreneurship. However, the programmes need overhauling because entrepreneurship does magical positive turn around in the nation’s economic development.
Stakeholders should be employed to work with the government both at Federal and State level, that the policies made earlier be revisited and enforced. University education has been acknowledged as a primary mechanism for the creation of a knowledge, economy and the development of human capital all over the world, thus considering the essential role of the University/Technical/Vocational education to human development should be highly solicited for.
The emergence of entrepreneurs is considered favourable as key policy strategy in many developed nations, and entrepreneurship is given the center stage in economic development. This owes to the fact that it contributes to nation’s wealth by creating employment opportunities, opening new markets, driving industrializations, as well as increase in productivity leading to equitable distribution of income and higher standard of living for the populace.
The Event Planning / Interior and Exterior Decorations is seriously on a high wave globally, very lucrative. Event planning is more or less contracting your occasion for a hitch free parties and also ensures everything related to an event is being taken care of, ranging from idea conception, preparation charged with creating experiences and bringing visions to life. An event planner is committed to many task. It is a highly paid job and a good career for anyone who may want to venture into this lucrative business.
In fact, it is the application of project management to creation and development of small or large scale personal or corporate events such as festival, conferences, ceremonies such as weddings, name ceremonies, burials, house warming, concerts etc. It brings out the instilled sense of creativity in you.
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