EFFECT OF PROCUREMENT PRACTICE IN SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY
ABSTRACT
My unprecedented increase in the number of unemployed graduates from tertiary institutions in Nigeria is alarming and calls for concern, entrepreneurship is regarded as a veritable tool necessary to address this socio-economic problem. Entrepreneurship seek to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of setting this paper, found that entrepreneurship is a learnable process that can be taught, nurtured, support and enhanced through education training chapter three covers the research methodology and design chapter four puts forward the analysis and presentation of the data gotten in the course of the research, while chapter five summarises the study and thereby gives the necessary recommendations about the need for the development of entrepreneurial spirit among students in tertiary institutions.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
According to section 8 (58) of FRN (2004), tertiary education is the education given after secondary education, either in universities, colleges of education, polytechnics, monotechnics including those institutions offering correspondence courses. One of the goals of such education is to acquire both physical and intellectual skills which will enable individual to be self-reliant and useful members of the society.
Article (24(C ) of the same section indicates that universities education shall contribute to making all students of a general program of all round improvement in university education, to offer general study courses such as history, of ideas, philosophy of knowledge and nationalism. This provision demands the strengthening of entrepreneurship education curriculum in the tertiary institutions.
Our world is fast changing, interdependent and certainly amongst the most interestingin human history (Enu, 2010). It is indeed an era of greater challenges. These challenges bring possibilities for those responsible for education subsequent generations. On the srenggth of the Greg, pike and Selby (1991). It asked the following questions:
1. How should schools go about in the task of preparing young people for more informed and effective participation in world society?
2. How can teachers best help to develop understanding in the face of this exciting yet daunting prospect of adult life in the 21st century?
3. What kind of skills, capacities and insights students need to make sense of, cope with and handle an accelerating rate of change in this growing world?
A synthesis of the above question constitutes a rich contebt scope of entrepreneurship education. In a report of the Global education initiative (2009) on educating the next wave of entrepreneurs and unlocking entrepreneurial capabilities to meet the challenges of the 21st century, an aspect of the report states thus: preparing todays students for success and eventual leadership in the new global market place is the most important responsibility in education today. Entrepreneurship education is an important tool to achieving these objectives and should be universally to provide all students with opportunities to explore and fulfill their potentials.
Similarly, Alvin Totfler, the popular futurist declared as follows: “our job is to prepare children for the future…… But the challenges is preparing them for the high future: to fot into the future perfectly and function with the skills needed in this dynamic and responsive society requires entrepreneurship education knowledge. The rapidly expanding nature of entrepreneurship education has become an evolving aspect of higher education. It is a culture that is meant to transform the Nigeria tertiary education towards global trends.
Supporting the above, Obanya (2010) is of the view that universities have always striven to be the best among equals. That the edvent of the “knoweldeg economy” and emphasis on such values as cutting edge (in terms of ideas, innovations, facilities and most importantly technology) and global competitiveness has influenced the academic ambition of tertiary institution in generals and universities in particular in a sky is no longer he limit direction. He furthered stated that there is an external socio-economic push for people to seek education in competitive institutions for eventual exposure to fface the competitive world. There is a tendency to adequate the nations education system on a global league of world class universities. When this is achieved, it becomes an index of rising standard of our tertiary institutions in terms of curricular content and human resources, which can measure up for global competitivness.
