Ministry of Trade, Co-operatives, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Communications is in talks with Ministry of Education to include entrepreneurship lessons into the education curriculum.
Minister Manoa Kamikamica told Parliament that some service providers were also talking to the Ministry of Education on the issue.
“There is a move afoot to move the awareness and education for co-operatives and MSMEs into education,” Mr Kamikamica said.
“I think TELS actually is launching a university-level entrepreneurial program in this Budget. The allocation is about half a million, so that is a start.”
He said the development of curriculums was underway.
“Generally, at the moment, entrepreneurship seems to be a vocation when we hit our forties and fifties, like a pre-retirement vocation, but we believe from what we are seeing, there is a massive entrepreneurial spirit with our youth and with our young and with the right encouragement and the right policy settings, we will create a more vibrant sort of entrepreneurial movement at that age level.
“It is a work in progress. Curriculums are being developed right now, and I certainly have had meetings with the service providers who are keen to provide education and training in that space.”
