Are you born with the entrepreneurial spirit or can you acquire it?

Are you born with the entrepreneurial spirit or can you acquire it?

With £180m earmarked for enterprise education in the UK, a new poll by leading qualification provider NCFE has revealed that 62% of people in education believe that you can create entrepreneurs in the classroom.

National awarding body NCFE carried out the survey, asking colleges, training providers and students throughout the UK if they thought that enterprise could be taught.

The web-poll at www.ncfe.org.uk asked “can you teach entrepreneurship?” 62% of respondents said yes while 38% said no. The results mirror the increase in requests for NCFE’s enterprise qualifications with candidate registrations increasing by 49% in July alone.

David Grailey, Chief Executive at NCFE, says:

“Enterprise is a hot topic in business, politics and education so it is important we develop the nation’s entrepreneurs via education. We are seeing a significant growth in the number of colleges, training providers and students taking these courses so it is important that they are delivered by staff and institutions who believe in them, and that students see them as beneficial.

“NCFE is committed to developing high quality qualifications that really do make a difference to students’ enterprise skills and awareness of opportunity.”

NCFE qualifications deliver flexible, vocational learning and help individuals with innovative business ideas to progress to the next step. They have also been used to support a number of self-employment initiatives around the country.

The qualifications cover many key aspects including understanding and exploring enterprise, planning and carrying out an enterprising project, evaluating projects and self development.

Enterprise is becoming a higher priority for both the Government and education providers, with Gordon Brown announcing in the recent budget that a further £180m will be spent over the next three years to continue funding enterprise education in the UK.
more at:http://website.ncfe.org.uk/