Abstract
This paper rests on a survey among students of Arab Open University (AOU) that covered 6,369 students from all branches (in eight countries) and across all four colleges. It endeavours to raise a case for introducing entrepreneurship education in AOU. The Survey results show a surprisingly high level of entrepreneurial intention among the students, and the overwhelming majority of them are demanding introduction of entrepreneurship education. The Paper uses results of the Survey to present how the students of AOU desire their entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship training programmes to be organised, and to identify the target groups of each of the two programmes. Based on these results and on selected literature review of the concepts of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship training, an outline of entrepreneurship curricula and of teaching and training methods are suggested. Both curricula and methods advanced could be of relevance beyond the specific case of AOU.
Highlights
This paper rests on a survey among students of Arab Open University (AOU) that covered 6,369 students from all branches and across all four colleges
It has been widely accepted that entrepreneurship education and training increase entrepreneurial intention, expand the pool of nascent entrepreneurs and enhance the skills and chances of success of existing entrepreneurs
Hynes (1996) asserts that ‘entrepreneurship education needs to avoid the mechanistic approach of business teaching, which often conveys the image of business as being about systems or techniques and ignore the motivation and personal competency components which are essential for enterprise development’ (p. 11)
Summary
This paper rests on a survey among students of Arab Open University (AOU) that covered 6,369 students from all branches (in eight countries) and across all four colleges. The Paper uses results of the Survey to present how the students of AOU desire their entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship training programmes to be organised, and to identify the target groups of each of the two programmes Based on these results and on selected literature review of the concepts of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship training, an outline of entrepreneurship curricula and of teaching and training methods are suggested. Both curricula and methods advanced could be of relevance beyond the specific case of AOU. Some commentators link it to innovation or to small business or to formal economic activities only, while others perceive of it as just pursuing a business opportunity (which may or may not be related to a profit organisation)
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