EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPACITY BUILDING

Ajewole, Idowu Philip

Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.

E–mail: ajewolephilip@yahoo.co.uk

ABSTRACT

Education is the bedrock for every development that takes place in the society and the answer to the menace of unemployment that plagues the third nations, Nigeria in particular.  Education enables high skillfulness of human resource  and technological development of an organization that enhances input maximization that brings unquantifiable  benefits  to  individuals  in the  societies.  This  paper  examines  human capacity  building  as an offshoot  of education  that  enhances  the transformation  of individuals  and  the  societies.  It  stresses  education  as  the  only  builder  of  human capacity,   organizations   and  societies.   Human  capacity  building   is  enshrined   in education   with   various   systems   to   solve   identified   problems   of   individuals, organizations  and  societies.  The  paper  sees  education  as  the  only  tool  to  human capacity building that can solve all mirage of problems confronting  the third world nations. Solution to the problems of human capacity building, especially those that are peculiar to the field of education in the third world is hereby addressed.