Youth Entrepreneurship Education: As a Core Subject in School Curriculum

Abstract

This paper deals with the framework related to the curriculum of Indian schools as well as Higher Education Institutions (HEI) regarding “Youth Entrepreneurship”. Every second individual realized that the key to bring prosperity and stimulate growth is fostering entrepreneurship especially to youth. Youth is the future of every nation & inheritors of the earth. Youth entrepreneurship refers to the act of young people starting and running their own businesses. This can include a variety of business ventures, such as small brick-and-mortar shops, online businesses, and even social enterprises. The paper addresses the necessary education to be imparted at an early stage during high-school and intermediate among the educated yet unemployed youth which helps in developing mindset of the students for becoming a successful entrepreneur. Additionally, it also helps improving country’s economic growth and achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). India, among the most densely populated countries of the world has an abundant amount of youth that lack awareness about youth entrepreneurship, its benefits, various schemes and programs launched by the government. There is a dire need to come up with a solution that would not only help fight the problems of unemployment but would also help to step towards becoming a developed economy that involves new, bright and innovative minds. However, as highlighted by many researchers the efforts to explore entrepreneurship in Indian domain has still remained very less and tragically the number comes to negligible when talking of studying the same as a subject from youth point of view. Through in-depth research and analysis, the aim of this research paper is to add Youth Entrepreneurship as a core subject in high school curriculum. An attempt to suggest some steps that should be undertaken to tackle such challenges are also discussed.