ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYABILITY AND GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS IN THE NEW NORMAL

The paper discussed entrepreneurship education for employability and global competitiveness in the new normal. The work examined the concept of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and employment generation, it further elaborated on dynamism required from an entrepreneur as well as the challenges facing entrepreneurship education to fit into global competitiveness. The paper identified poor funding, infrastructural inadequacy, low standard of education, lack of ICT compliant teachers, improper exposure, and inadequate working capital as challenges facing entrepreneurship education for employability and global competitiveness in the new normal. The paper emphasized that in spite of the challenges in entrepreneurship education it still remains the greatest avenue of employment generation through exposing students to acquire employability skills and through provision of macro, small and medium-sized enterprises, recommendations were proffered to ameliorate the identified challenges of entrepreneurship education. The paper concludes that entrepreneurship education is very important in the society, it is a pivotal tool to meet with the global competitiveness and reduce unemployment.