Programmes and Trainings | CENTRE FOR ENTERPRENEURSHIP INNOVATION

Submitted by cei on January 30, 2025

Programmes

Our Academic Programmes

CEI coordinates three courses at the undergraduate level. These are GES 301, ETR 301, and ENT 211.

GES 301 – "Introduction to Entrepreneurial Skills" is a compulsory entrepreneurship course offered to all students at the 300 level. The course serves as a tool for entrepreneurship education to create awareness of the entrepreneurship space in the country, as well as introducing the students to the necessary skills and mindsets that would set them on the course of impacting the country's economy.

ETR 301-"Basic Entrepreneurship and Innovation" is an elective entrepreneurship course offered to students at the 300 level. The course is domiciled in UI.CEI and it is co-taught with entrepreneurs. Students have access to entrepreneurs who engage them in interactive sessions in the classroom. In addition to networking, students enjoy mentoring services from these entrepreneurs. Students write business plans at the end of the course, and viable ones are supported by connecting them to FINANCE. Students understudy businesses in order to practically learn more about these organisations as well as from the entrepreneurs.

The reality of the 21st-century world of work has uncovered the need to equip undergraduate students with the employability skills, which are beyond the subject-knowledge skills employers of labour are looking for in their potential employees. As a result of this, career readiness and employability skills were introduced as a module into the course curriculum with the aim of getting the students job-ready.

The centre is also in collaboration with Academic and Post Tertiary Excellence Limited on equipping the students with entrepreneurial skill development, employment, and outcome-based training.

ENT 211 – "Entrepreneurship and Innovation" is a compulsory entrepreneurship course offered by all students at the 200 level. This course prepares students to spot opportunities in the environment and also generate innovative solutions to solve identified societal problems. It also includes equipping students with how to utilise the digital space to enhance their businesses. This is one of the newly introduced courses in entrepreneurship as contained in the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standard (CCMAS) of the National Universities Commission (NUC).