Recrafting Self-Reliance Policy Through Technology and Business/Trade/Entrepreneurship Education: A Study of the Federal Capital Territory’s (FCT’s) Public Secondary Schools

This research focuses on recrafting self-reliance policy through technology and business/trade/entrepreneurship education: a study of the Federal Capital Territory's (FCT's) public secondary schools. It looked at the teaching and learning of technology and business/trade/entrepreneurship education by examining the availability of infrastructure and teachers for the subjects in the FCT public secondary schools. The purpose is to establish if Nigeria’s capital is leading in imparting self-reliance education as stated in the National Policy on Education. A checklist titled Availability of Infrastructure, Teachers for Technology Business/Trade/Entrepreneurship Subjects (AITforTBTES) was used to collect data for the research. Three (3) research questions were raised to give the research a definite focus. The research found that FCT is leading in the implementation of self-reliant policy through the teaching of technology and business/trade/entrepreneurship education in public secondary schools, as some of the schools have participated and won international competitions eight (8) times, beating first world countries. It is recommended that there is urgency in recrafting self-reliance policy through technology and business/trade/entrepreneurship education as the public secondary schools in FCT have demonstrated in winning several competitions on the Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) platform. The government must also invest money in public education, especially at the secondary level throughout Nigeria.