1 Strategies for Entrepreneurship Education: Towards a Re-engineered Science Education for Socio-economic Development in Nigeria Bennedicta Olukunbi Fidel-Imoisili, & Bamikole O. Ogunleye National Open University of Nigeria Corresponding Author Bamikole O. Ogunleye, PhD Department of Science Education, National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja. +234-8034072263 bogunleye@noun.edu.ng Abstract The missing links between school and industry, curriculum and practice, policy and implementation, have rendered the Nigerian school system and the industrial space both ineffective and unproductive judging by students’ poor performance and underdeveloped socio- economic landscape. This is traceable to poorly planned curriculum and poor delivery of instruction in school science which has been identified as the fulcrum for skills acquisition, sound entrepreneurship education and technological development of any nation. On this basis, the paper analysed the current educational practices and government efforts at re-designing and strengthening school curricula for effective entrepreneurship education. It also x-rays the time- tested elements of the Chinese approach to running Technical and Vocational Education and Training institutions which have recorded huge success as an example of successful entrepreneurship education beyond the four walls of the classroom. Selected strategies for inculcating entrepreneurship knowledge, attitudes and skills were examined based on their origin, procedures for their classroom adoption, advantages and their respective disadvantages. With the awareness creation efforts directed at government, policy makers, industrialists and science teachers especially, it was suggested that new policy directions, more effective strategies and improved school-industry partnerships need to be explored for a re-engineered school science education curriculum implementation for improved entrepreneurial knowledge, attitudes and practices. Keywords: Entrepreneurship education, Science education, instructional strategies, Socio- economic development Introduction Graduate unemployment is now a national menace with the unemployed youth posing challenge to the country's socio-economic climate (Samuel, Ofem, & Ikuenomore, 2012). Crime has increased with brigandage, incidents of armed robbery, kidnaping for ransom and these are attributed to poor entrepreneurship education delivered in the educational institutions. This is reflected in a number of deficiencies viz: analytical skills; entrepreneurial skills; problem- solving/decision-making skills; and inadequate scientific and technical skills acquired (Ugwu & Ezeani, 2012). Science is a venture in which the learner attempts to understand both the body of knowledge and the process by which this knowledge is established, extended, refined and revised