MANAGING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE UNEMPLOYMENT ALLEVIATION IN CAMEROON
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Analysts have stressed the need for improved human capital development (HCD) in Cameroon and other developing nations on the ground that, a nation’s human capital is vital for a future technological breakthrough, international competitiveness and sustainable economic development. This empirical paper investigates the prospect of repositioning entrepreneurship education as a strategy for boosting human capital development and employability in Cameroon. This paper examined how entrepreneurship education can sustain unemployment in Cameroon. It stressed the importance of education in the growth and development of any economy. Before independence, the British and France literary education in Cameroon prepared graduates for white-collar jobs and did not make provision for self-employment. Cameroon changes to the new 6-7-3 system of education after independence, though stressed education for self-reliance did not arrest unemployment hence the need for entrepreneurship education. Entrepreneurship education, specialized training was designed to equip graduates with entrepreneurial skills for self-employment. It became necessary because of an increasing number of youth unemployment in Cameroon both National Education Board and the Advisory Council for Education initiatives and programs for entrepreneurship education have not arrested unemployment, perhaps, because it has not been effectively implemented as there was no clear indication to full implementation of entrepreneurship education curriculum in many institutions of higher learning. The paper, therefore, advocated for skill acquisition courses in our institutions of higher learning, hence this will go a long way to enable students to acquire basic entrepreneurial skills and innovations for self-employment or self-reliance; a well structured, unique and challenging curricula on entrepreneurship that will produce graduates with entrepreneurial skills for self-employment is needed as well as adequate funding of these institutions.
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