ABSTRACT

1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Entrepreneurship capacities are increasingly recognized as important drivers of economic growth, productivity and employment, and as a key aspect of economic dynamism. Recent dimensions to entrepreneurship have necessitated the need for formal education for entrepreneurs. There has been consequent rapid increase in the numbers of schools (primary, secondary and tertiary) all over the world. The continuous expansion in the educational and other training institutions is part of the quest for entrepreneurial capacity building. As indicated earlier changes in manpower needs induce appropriate reactions from the human resource development agencies.

Formal education according to Bassey (2006) is a process of acculturation through which an individual is helped to develop his potentials and maximum activation in order to achieve self-fulfillment and happiness. Ajuzie (2005) sees education as an essential part of the society process employed to train the human beings to be functional and to adopt the behavioral patterns by the same society. Education is also an ever- present phenomenon in each phase of human civilization however diverse its nature in each era (Ekwosi, 2012). Embedded in these views is the role education plays in training human beings. The role of education in entrepreneurial capacity development cannot be over emphasized. Some people even see the importance of education in human development to the extent of presenting education as playing a complementary role in creation of human beings, hence they assert that God initiated creation and education completed it.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The following are the objectives of this study:

To examine the role of formal school in promoting entrepreneurial capacity in Nigeria.
To determine the adequacy of school curriculum in promoting entrepreneurial capacity in Nigeria.
To identify the factors militating against the promotion of entrepreneurial capacity through formal school.

1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

What is the role of formal school in promoting entrepreneurial capacity in Nigeria?
What is the adequacy of school curriculum in promoting entrepreneurial capacity in Nigeria?
What are the factors militating against the promotion of entrepreneurial capacity through formal school?

1.5 HYPOTHESIS

HO: There is no significant relationship between formal school and promotion of entrepreneurial capacity in Nigeria.

HA: There is significant relationship between formal school and promotion of entrepreneurial capacity in Nigeria

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The following are the significance of this study:

The outcomes of this study will reveal the role of formal school in promoting entrepreneurial capacity in Nigeria. It will also reveal the basis for entrepreneurship education which has been introduced to formal school all over the world to develop entrepreneurial capabilities
This research will be a contribution to the body of literature in the area of the role of formal school in promoting entrepreneurial capacity in Nigeria, thereby constituting the empirical literature for future research in the subject area.

1.7 SCOPE/LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

This study is limited to Edo State. It will also cover the role of formal school in promoting entrepreneurial capacity in the State

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