Business Education and National Development: Issues and Challenges

This paper examined the role of education in general and business education in particular in national development. Education is considered as social instrument for developing human resources and for human capital formation. On the other hand, development is seen as a purposeful change in a society that contributes to social and economic well being and advancement of its people without creating any disharmony. Through literature, the paper established a significant relationship between education and development. It is in line with this that the role of business education, as a vocational discipline was discussed. Some factors that impede maximum contribution of business education to national development were highlighted. Finally, some recommendations were made among which is a call to do away with obsolete technologies. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n4p12