Integration of Entrepreneurial Skills into Technical and Vocational Education: A Panacea for Controlling Unemployment.

Nigeria as a natio.1 is faced with insecure economy, problems of simultaneous inflation and recession as well as significant unemployment of both youths of and adults. The increasing rate of unemployment among graduates of technical and Vocational educatio.1 and unsatisfactory state of the nation's economy call for review and the integration of entrepreneurial skills into technical and vocational education programme to clange the poor state of economic and human resources developments. Technical and vocational education is observed as educational programme that prepares youths and adults for employment into varicus trades (Okoro, 2004). As the rate of unemployment among the youths and adults is on the increase, it is important that the curricular of technical and vocational education needs to be revi wed to provide technical and vocational students with the entrepreneurial skils needed for self-employment and self reliance. This paper highlights the need for entrepreneurial skills into technical and vocational education curriculum and inclusion of strategies for enhancing entrepreneurial skills into technical and vocational education.