VISION 20:2020 AND NIGERIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM: IMPLICATIONS ON BUSINESS EDUCATION

Abstract

Historically, Business Education started in the U.S.A. in or around 1749, and in Nigeria, in the 1920s with the missionaries and the private sector playing the leading role. Initially, Business Education in Nigeria had the problems of visibility and awareness, but efforts to overcome the difficulties were crowned by the National Policy on Education, 1979, revised, 2004. This policy represents full government recognition of Business Education as an important component of the National education effort. The report of the Vision 20:2020 committee is expected to further consolidate awareness and acceptance of business education in the national education package. Contributions of Business Education to national productivity are glaring, judging from services being rendered by products of the programme, both in the private and public sectors of the economy. The paper made recommendations whose implementation the writer hopes would help realize the Business Education vision as contained in its objectives.