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The historical Background of Entrepreneurial Development In Nigeria: its Gains, Shortcomings and Needful
by Ola Adebayo and Joseph Adeniyi Kolawole

Abstract:
The major purpose of the study is to highlight the origin of entrepreneurship and education development in Nigeria. The paper examines 1908-1947 British administration education antecedents in Nigeria, Blaise Memorial, Industrial School in Abeokuta, Formal Vocational Education in various departmental training schools. The birth of technical institutes, colleges of technology, and university education in Nigeria, with the establishment of entrepreneurial and industrial programe, Such as incubating centres. The study has brought into focus the nature of courses run by the various departmental training schools established by British at the beginning: (i) The Nigerian Railway Training course for selected station staff with 5 years working experience. (ii) The survey course with 2 years in the college for the theory and another 2 years practical at the survey school Oyo for specialist training. (iii) Senior Marine officer (in the Nigerian Marine Vessels) course of 6 years duration, 3 years for theory and another 3 years for practical. and (iv) The 6 years training course (for the Post and Telegraphs Sub-Inspector of lines) were also divided into both the theory and practical training etc. The importance of this study is that it has highlighted those things that have been hitherto neglected along the line of our education and entrepreneurship development. That is, those things that the country should have incorporated into our education curriculum (practice and apprenticeship etc.) rather than the theory (much literary) that the current systems have placed much emphasis on. In conclusion, the gains , shortcomings, accrued to the nation from these developments were discussed in the paper. Suggestions and recommendations made in accordance with the findings and observations from the study.

Keywords: antecedent, blaise industrial school, agricultural education.

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