Entrepreneurship and business focused programs teach pupils crucial life skills that will help them navigate this uncertain future. These skills include problem-solving, teamwork, empathy, as well as learning to accept failure as a part of the growth process.
Entrepreneurship Education serves as the basis for the creative and innovative ideas required for pupil’s success in the 21st century, because it teaches them to cultivate unique skills and think outside the box. Entrepreneurship education will not only help them embracing any upcoming opportunities to be successful entrepreneurs but also tackle the adversities successfully in thefuture.
Introducing pupils to entrepreneurship develops their initiative and helps them to be more creative and self-confident in whatever they undertake and to act in a socially responsible way. As the jobs are getting limited owing to numerous reasons such as technological advancements and population growth, entrepreneurship option can be seen as a significant career option
among the current generation. Due to the increase in the unemployment rate in Zambia, it is necessary to teach our pupils to create job opportunities to empower themselves to become financially independent.
Entrepreneurs are people with leadership skills, creativity and an extreme passion to succeed in their own business. However, without proper education all the talent cannot be harnessed. With the help of education pupils should take and learn how to run their own business.