Abstract:
The premise of this paper is that entrepreneurship is a vital mechanism for economic development. The question
of who should receive entrepreneurship education should, hence, be answered from the perspective of the
fundamental development challenge that such education is expected to address. One of such challenges facing
Ghana is graduate unemployment. The national economy is increasingly being tainted with jobless growth and
graduate unemployment. The paper conceptually explores some of the causes of graduate unemployment in
Ghana and presents entrepreneurship education as an important means of dealing with this development
challenge. Consequently, it is recommended that Ghana’s education policy makers should intensify the realignment
of institutional aspirations and mechanisms in the education sector with those of the national economy,
particularly, issues pertaining to job creation and graduate employment.
