INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Abstract

It has been expatiated that social security is a social insurance programme, providing social protections including poverty, unemployment, disability, old age and others. On this basis, to realize any meaningful development in the society, it requires acquisition of skills by the citizen of the society. This called for the type of education that will empower people to be self-reliant. Business education is the programme that guarantees social development because it is designed to inculcate skills and competencies required to be self-reliant. This paper discussed the concept of business education, objectives of business education, concept of social security and contributions of business education to the development of the society through the establishment of following factors such has creation of job opportunities, elimination youth restiveness, promote national development and poverty reduction.