Entrepreneurship Skill
Skill is very important in the life of every human being. The reason why many technicians earns more than some university graduates is because the technicians acquire more practical skills than the theories, unlike the graduates who were fed with theoretical experiences while in the universities.
Today, there are many unemployed graduates in the country. This is partly as a result of our long system of education that is more of grammar and not much practical learning. It is evident that the highest number of unemployed is found in the African Continent. The truth remains that the major causes of the unemployment among these vibrant youths is lack of skill to back up what they learnt from their institutions of learning.
The study of entrepreneurship has grown dramatically and is now becoming a priority in educational research, both for courses taught and volume of researches undertaken. While setting up its own boundaries, this field of study has relied on other disciplines for much of its content. Business education, economics and more recently cognitive psychology have been influential in informing the dominant methods in entrepreneurship research. Academic research in these areas has contributed significant knowledge to understand the causes of entrepreneurial propensity (Rae 2000).
Skill as basic ability is the means by which man adjust to life. A person’s attitude and work functions are required and necessary antidotes suggesting the suitable skills performance and acquisition of same by going through a given work sample (Adeyemo, 2003)
Entrepreneurship skill is thought of as a quality of performance which does not depend solely upon a person’s fundamental, innate capacities but must be developed through training, practice and experience. Although skill depends essentially on learning, it also includes the concepts of efficiency and economy in performance. Modern concepts of skill stress the flexibility with which a skilled operator reaches a given end on different occasions according to precise circumstances. However, it must be reiterated that even though basic human capacities are not sufficient to produce skills, they form the necessary basis of their development; skills represent particular ways of using capacities in relation to environmental demands, with human being and external situation together forming a functional system.
Therefore, entrepreneurial skills are skills needed to have to succeed in business, most especially in teaching. Entrepreneurial skills are the basic skills necessary to enable you start, develop, finance and succeed in your home enterprise.
Surprisingly, intimately related to classroom activities as the concept of skill may be and necessary as its measurement, assessment and general evaluation may be to the affairs of the school system, little is done about it in science teacher education while its records are seldom kept in continuous assessment in schools. Whereas, the national policy on education (FME, 1981) enjoins teachers to make instruction concept-centered, activity based and work related. This fact underlines the needs to focus on acquisition of entrepreneurial skills in school instruction for the benefit of school and society.