Managing Higher Education for Unemployment Reduction in Achieving Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper was a theoretical paper aimed at discussing the strategies to manage higher education that will lead to reduction in unemployment for sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper was justified due to observed unprecedented level of unemployed educated youths on the streets of Nigeria. Several concepts were reviewed such as higher education, unemployment, types of unemployment, consequences of unemployment, state of educational system and unemployment and factors contributing to educated unemployed youths. The paper also discussed the ways of managing higher education which will lead to unemployment reduction among which are; proper functioning of entrepreneurship education, the curriculum should be relevant to the reality of life, application of man-power requirement approach, provision of adequate funding to meet with teaching and learning needs of the students and promote access to technologies that will meet the practical learning of students. When all these are done, to a high extent education will positively lead to reduction of graduates’ unemployment in Nigeria and this will lead to both economic and national development.