ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: A PANACEA TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Binta M. Mandara

Department of Business Education

Federal College of Education, Yola

ABSTRACT

Entrepreneurship education constitutes a crucial factor in the economic growth and development of every nation. This would only be achieved by harnessing and giving entrepreneurship education a special attention.  This paper highlights the prominence of entrepreneurship, ways of energizing the spirit of entrepreneurship, why people take entrepreneurial courses.  It also highlights some effectiveness of entrepreneurship education, the growth of entrepreneurship education and effects of encouraging entrepreneurship education.  The paper further raises a number of suggestions that could help to improve entrepreneurship education for economic development of a nation (Nigeria).