The Karnataka Skill, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups Task Force has recommended the introduction of mandatory Entrepreneurial Mindset Curriculum (EMC) in school education beginning from Class 9 from the academic year of 2022-23.
It said the curriculum should provide opportunity to interact with entrepreneurs to learn from their journeys, take up problem-solving team projects and student-led activities to build communication skills. A web app supported by a chatbot for career explorations, micro research projects in entrepreneurship, provision for giving seed money to students in Class X and PUC to run business projects in teams were among the other recommendations.
Task Force Chairman S. Selvakumar, IAS, on Tuesday submitted the report to Minister for IT/ BT, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship & Livelihood C.N. Ashwath Narayan and recommended that a curriculum can be developed by DSERT in collaboration with NGO such as Udhyam Learning Foundation which has developed such a curriculum for Delhi and multiple other States. “It is essential for EMC to be taught for one period daily in all schools, for Classes IX to PUC, as a mandatory part of the academic curriculum”, it said.
