Abstract
This paper examined the relevance of Basic Science, mathematics and technology as an important tool for developing entrepreneurship skills among upper Basic students in junior secondary schools in Cross River State of Nigeria. Due to lack of employment opportunities which has become a very serious issue in Nigeria today, the need for entrepreneurship skills to be inculcated in this students is very important especially at the upper Basic level where some of the students may not have the opportunity to further their education such students can use the skills which was inculcated into them to become an independent person who can now establish either a bee farm, can go into planting of flowers which in turn can be sold to provide money for him, poultry farm, snail farm, manufacturing of liquid soap, making of perfume, computer repairs and maintenance, construction of inverter. Employment of qualified teachers and improved method of teaching can go a long way in developing these skills in the students, it has been observed that lack of fund, qualified teachers and non existence of entrepreneurship club in our schools are some of the challenges that hinder the inculcation of entrepreneurship skills to our students. Adequate fund should be made available; awareness about inculcating such skills to our student should be created. Junior secondary school students should be taught on how to be self reliant and engaging in gainful ventures that can generate money for them. Every teacher teaching science, mathematics and technology should organize a field trip for the students as this will enable the students have first hand information and seeing things for themselves. It was concluded that Entrepreneurship has the potential of equipping individuals with skills that can help individuals to be self reliant even creates and generate employment for others.
Highlights
An entrepreneur is someone who has the ability to develop a new venture in business in order to make money, often in a way that involves financial risks (Quirk, 2003) According to Agbodu in Ezema (2000), an entrepreneur is defined as the owner of a business who is responsible for the initiation and organization of the enterprises out of a desire to maximize profits.An entrepreneur is a person that has developed certain skills, attitudes and behavior that enable the person to establish a business, thereby creating job for himself and others
According to Ezema (2000) Entrepreneurship education is the education given to an individual which will help him develop the skills needed for the management of any business venture
The federal government is advocating that entrepreneurship education be made popular and fostered among business and non business students at all levels of education. This is because acquiring entrepreneurship skills will help to develop the youth, student and even the teachers socially, politically and economically. Researchers such as Brase and Runge (2014) accepted that entrepreneurial behavior remains a crucial engine of innovation and growth for the national and individual companies, for Nigeria to be at par with the developed countries of the world there is the need to make science and mathematics more interesting to the citizenry and ensure effective teaching of science in our schools (Obinaju 2010) in
Summary
An entrepreneur is someone who has the ability to develop a new venture in business in order to make money, often in a way that involves financial risks (Quirk, 2003) According to Agbodu in Ezema (2000), an entrepreneur is defined as the owner of a business who is responsible for the initiation and organization of the enterprises out of a desire to maximize profits. This is because acquiring entrepreneurship skills will help to develop the youth, student and even the teachers socially, politically and economically Researchers such as Brase and Runge (2014) accepted that entrepreneurial behavior remains a crucial engine of innovation and growth for the national and individual companies, for Nigeria to be at par with the developed countries of the world there is the need to make science and mathematics more interesting to the citizenry and ensure effective teaching of science in our schools (Obinaju 2010) in Students and graduates without hands on skills and minds on experience In another development Oriafo (2002) as cited by Matazu (2010) in Abdu (2014) argued that science and mathematics education including chemistry education in Nigeria is grossly characterized by inadequacy of content and ineffective methodology by teachers, paucity of facilities, equipment and materials in our laboratories as well as dominated socio cultural lapses, including the lack of a developed entrepreneurship skill training. This aspect of the paper deals with the issue of biology as an aspect of basic science in developing entrepreneurship skills in junior secondary school students
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