CONCEPTUAL REVIEW OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY IN LAGOS STATE
Entrepreneurship education plays a pivotal role in developing university students’ knowledge, attitudes and competent skills acquired during their course of study to become more employable in the field of work and likewise job creators. The paper indicates the need for practical-based teaching in the university for graduate outcome-driven learning. To this end, this study, with the use of a desk revise method, reviewed the objectives of entrepreneurship education and university graduate employability in Lagos State, Nigeria. It examined the relationship and impact of entrepreneurship education on university graduate employability. Thus, concluded that university graduate employability is not only a variable to restrain the threat of unemployment among youth but a major determinant the country needs in general to have creative, resilient and self-reliant graduates that can think, be innovative to establish a support system and also remain employed through the study of entrepreneurship education. The study recommends that educational policy should enact collaboration between academic staff and industry experts to encourage prospective graduate entrepreneurs with professional trainings and that the government should make adequate provision for educational resources to achieve its objectives, to help graduates gain experiential learning to fit the workforce.