BUSINESS EDUCATION AS IMPETUS TOWARDS NATIONAL SECURITY AND TRANSFORMATION (Journal)

Abstract

Business education is an education for the acquisition and development of skills, competencies, and attributes which are necessary for the efficiency of the economic system. The focus of this paper is business education as an impetus towards national security and transformation. In addition, this paper sees business education as a cardinal instrument that will foster national security and the transformation agenda. It gives various professional definitions of business education, the objectives of business education, contributions of business education towards national security and transformation agenda, measures of solving the problems and, the paper also depicts the predicaments confronting business education that have affected national security and transformation, conclusions and recommendations are made on the way forward and, one of such recommendations is that government at all levels and other stakeholders such as the private sectors should improve in the provision of soft loan with affordable interest rate to business education graduates to enable them set up a small-scale business.