Entrepreneurial Skills through Science and Technology Education and the Emerging Challenges in the Attainment of Millennium Development Goals

Abstract

Entrepreneurial skills development through science and technology education is an essential tool for job creation. The current technical school curriculum is lacking in entrepreneurship training in terms of contents and activities for both students and teachers. This results to production of technical school gradautes that cannot compete favorably in the world of work as regards being self-reliant and self-employed. The paper was a descriptive survey which assessed science and technology teachers competencies and availability of material resources for developing entrepreneurial skills. The study was carried out in Niger State. The sample consists of 6 technical schools with their principals, 72 science and technology teacher and 108 students. The instrument used was questionnaire. The data were analyzed using mean statistics for the research questions, The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using the analysis of variance. The findings revealed lack of entrepreneurial skills" competencies on the part of science and technology teachers and lack of material resources for developing the needed skills. The recommendations include among occurs that science and technology teachers should be empower to possess entrepreneurial skill for effective attainment of millennium development goals.