THE KEYNOTE CONVERSATION ON STRENGTHENING TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (TVET) SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR A GREEN ECONOMY

Abstract

There is no doubt that the socio-economic wheel of developed countries is found in the existence and activities of small business enterprises. Either the existence and or the lack of these small business enterprises created from the opportunities of their environment moderate theflow of economic activities and the living standards of nations. The main focus of green economy is that the environment is exploited for our use, while ensuring that it is protected for the use of future generations. Small business enterprises have a critical share of activities that are carried out in communities.  Manycountries have recently adopted entrepreneurship education as an instrument to pilot these small business enterprises that play major roles in the development of the society. Majority of these youngerpeople are in tertiary institutions; hence, greater emphases of developed nations are geared towards the education and training of the youths to drive economic activities through the creation of small business enterprises. To drive the green economy, entrepreneurship success must come with the need to exploit the potentials of students; then develop their innovative potentials through which they would graduate into the society and practice their various lines of creativity and innovative potentials to put the market equilibrium into test. This paper targets the concept of green economy and brings the relevance of educators’ responsibility to develop students’ potentials to drive the wheel of green economy through graduates’ innovative small business enterprises. The paper further holds educators responsible for the development of both informal and formal curriculum contents to guide students’ mindsets towards their role in the green economy.