Guidance and Counselling and Secondary School Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Development for National Stability and Integration

The paper was a descriptive survey research which sought to investigate Entrepreneurship Teachers’ strategies for Developing Entrepreneurial skills for national stability and integration. The study was conducted in Onitsha Education Zone of Anambra State. The population consisted of all entrepreneurship teachers in thirty-32 Secondary Schools in Onitsha Education Zone totaling 48 in number. No sampling technique was involved since the number of the teachers was not large. Four research questions and one null hypothesis guided the study. The instrument for data collection was a 20-item questionnaire developed by the researcher. The instrument was subjected to validation and an internal consistency was calculated using Cronbach Alpha and found to be 0.81. The instrument was administered to the subjects and data were collected. Data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and z-test was used to test the hypothesis at P<0.05. Results showed among others things that entrepreneurship teachers have the competence, skills, and strategies to develop youth Entrepreneurial skills for national stability and integration. Based on the finding, recommendations were made, among which is that entrepreneurial skills should be made mandatory as core skills to be learnt in Secondary Schools for self-reliant.