Peter Jones to launch Academy for Young Entrepreneurs
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Good news out of the UK - someone is starting to do something about the woeful lack of business education. StartUps.co.uk reports:
Serial entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den panellist Peter Jones is planning to launch a national academy for aspiring young entrepreneurs.
The Phones International Group founder is hoping the academy will create more start-ups in the UK by presenting entrepreneurship as a viable career path for young people.
The academy will cater for entrepreneurially minded 16-19 year olds, who will learn how to turn their business ideas into money-making reality firsthand from entrepreneurs themselves.
“This is going to be one of Britain’s first, what I would call, real enterprise academies,” Peter Jones told Startups.
He added: “I’ve always said that we should take the boardroom back to the classroom, and we should start young. 16-19 year olds will get the chance to be taught by entrepreneurs, not just teachers.”
It has long been a beef of mine that the people who are entrusted with educating the next generation are, almost without exception, career employees. What is worse, many of them go from school to higher education and straight back to school, having almost no real-world experience as employees within a trading business, either.
How can we expect our kids to grow up with an understanding of how to create wealth, when their teachers don’t even know themselves?
Full marks to Peter Jones, and here’s hoping the academy is a raging success!
April 26th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Fostering today’s youth is so important. School’s that teach kids to create, invent, and think are incredibly important. Although not on the same scale as Peter Jones’ Academy, http://www.bkfk.com does offer a lot of teacher’s resources, including lesson plans, that help budding entrepreurers.