ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES IN TERTIARY EDUCATION FOR SECURITY IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Entrepreneurship studies equip individuals with necessary skills for starting up a new business and the training to take the necessary risks but with a view to making profit. This is envisaged as capable of creating security in the society inasmuch as people with successful businesses are less likely to be involved in crimes that escalate fear in society thereby causing insecurity. Our aim is to find out in what ways entrepreneurial/entrepreneurship studies/education at the tertiary level of education can help generate security in the Nigerian society. This is a qualitative research employing the method of library research and dependent on primary and secondary sources. The paper finds out that entrepreneurship education which is done at the tertiary level is capable of equipping the individuals with necessary skills and competences for survival and success in the society as all tertiary education should do. But it in addition, specially and particularly prepares the individual to be uniquely innovative, ready to venture into start-up businesses not minding the dangers, for the dangers are necessarily inevitable and cautiously encountered, with a high degree of assurance of success. This is very crucial for making individuals self-employed and money making. This generally increases people’s economic welfare, satisfaction and happiness thereby greatly reducing crime; thus generating individual’s economic, personal/psychological security, and general well-being, peace and harmony of society which tantamount to societal security. Recommendations include: government should fund schools of entrepreneurship adequately, well-to-do individuals should invest in entrepreneurship education, people should be more orientated to value job creation than waiting for white collar jobs, etc.