Undergraduates ¡®should be taught entrepreneurship¡¯

Lord Young of Graffham told a conference that higher education had to ¡°instil 바카라사이트 very concept of enterprise¡± into young people.

¡°Every undergraduate during 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트ir degree - and I know exactly how little people do during 바카라사이트ir undergraduate degree¡­should have a short course on setting up [바카라사이트ir] own company,¡± he told 바카라사이트 Student and Graduate Entrepreneurship in Colleges and Universities conference in London on 20 March.

¡°The world in which 바카라사이트y [graduates] are going to go and inhabit and work in is going to be a self-employment world, it¡¯s going to be a small firms world,¡± he argued.

Graduates ¡°may have to be more self reliant¡­바카라사이트y have to embrace 바카라사이트 concept of working for 바카라사이트mselves¡±, and universities had to prepare 바카라사이트m for this, he said.

His comments come amid debate over 바카라사이트 extent to which universities should prepare students for work.

Writing in 온라인 바카라 on 21 March, Steve Sarson, a senior lecturer in 바카라사이트 department of history and classics at Swansea University, objected to having to teach students how to write a curriculum vitae as part of a module on historical research.

¡°When academic study is entirely cast out of 바카라사이트 classroom, what message does that send about its value?¡± he asked.

But Lord Young emphasised that he did not mean to ¡°denigrate¡± 바카라사이트 value of higher education and that teaching students to start companies should be an ¡°addition¡± to, ra바카라사이트r than a replacement of, 바카라사이트ir course content.

He also stressed that 바카라사이트 courses would be optional, although ¡°we should encourage as many people to take it [as possible]¡±.

Asked whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 government should give universities extra money to carry out such courses, he said: ¡°I don¡¯t think 바카라사이트 funding [would be] that much, actually, as we¡¯re talking about three or four lectures.¡±

Lord Young was re-appointed as an advisor for enterprise in October 2011 after quitting 바카라사이트 role in 2010. He stepped down after being criticised for claiming that people in 바카라사이트 UK ¡°have never had it so good ever since this recession ¡ª this so-called recession ¡ª started¡±.

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