SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN BUSINESS EDUCATION FOR THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGs)

UGWUOGO, CHRISTOPHER C.
Publisher: JOTERD {"id":1,"volume_name":"Vol 3 Number 1","created_at":null,"updated_at":null,"url":"volumes\/3.jpg"} (1): 1: doi: 1 Published in 2017

This paper enumerates the Millennium Development Goals (MOGs) and its targets. It also assesses the progress so far made in the world, Africa and Nigeria in particular. Various reports cited reveal that African countries and Nigeria in particular are not on track in meeting most of the MDGs by 2015. Skill development in business education is identified as one of the steps that will help Nigeria reverse this trend and be on the part of progress especially in eradicating extreme poverty. The paper also discusses the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition and 21st Century Employable Skills as guide for the Government, curriculum planners and implementers in using education to tackle problems of unemployment, poverty, ignorance and disease. A call for retraining of business educators on ICT and entrepreneurial skills is one of the recommendations made.

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