EQUIPPING YOUTH WITH CHEMISTRY ENTERPRENEURIAL SKILLS FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Badiyya M. Bugaje

Abstract


This paper examines the role of chemistry education in equipping chemistry students with basic entrepreneurial skills needed for self - reliance and national development. It discusses the objectives of entrepreneurial education, and ways of acquiring the entrepreneurial skills which involve active learning of the process skills. It also discusses the role of chemistry teachers towards imparting entrepreneurial skills to the learners and how to achieve national development through chemistry entrepreneurial education. At the end it was recommended that our youths should be encouraged to acquire entrepreneurial skills and practice it.  


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