The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, NERDC, has approved entrepreneurship education tools for teaching entrepreneurship and skill acquisition in Nigeria at basic levels.
Briefing newsmen, founder of approved BMI entrepreneurship tool, Nnamdi Unachukwu, who commending NERDC approval, explained that the initiative would help groom young entrepreneurs and equip them with the skills and mindset needed for success in the business and global world.
He said: “We have been advocating a revamp of the current school curriculum to a more functional one. In May 2024, we brought together stakeholders in the education and business sectors to launch its BMI CTY Initiative, where its entrepreneurship learning tools were first displayed to the public.
“Following the launch, NERDC approved it and recommended it as the first indigenous tool for learning entrepreneurship and skill acquisition in Nigeria at both primary and secondary education.
“We also designed a Train the Trainer (TTT) tool, which is a robust tool that will train the teachers under one month and get them ready to teach the pupils in classes. It is also setting up a Skills Lab model that can be replicated and implemented across schools and communities where practical skills and vocations can be learned by pupils, which supports the National Council on Education, NCE, plan that every child upon graduation from primary and secondary school must have learned two skills.
“We are currently discussing with some state governments the implementation of entrepreneurship education in their various states; several schools have begun using the tools in classes with outstanding results and participation from the pupils.
“The tool will not only equip the pupils but will have a long-term impact on the economy and the country at large. The era of massive unemployment will be over, as this is the only solution to Nigerian unemployment. The challenges of youths taking up criminality and other negative vices propelled by the get-money-quick syndrome due to a lack of jobs will be tackled because a solution has come that is sure to work if rightly encouraged and supported.”
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