Students encouraged to turn ideas into pay cheques

Being an entrepreneur means more than just making money. The core purpose of it, is to stimulate early stage investment in human, community and economic development for sustainability.

This is why in September, Goldfields TVET College Business and Human Resources Management N4 students were encouraged to turn their ideas into pay cheques. It was a drive to instil their minds with entrepreneurship thinking.

This was the mission of the College Annual Entrepreneurship Day that was organised by Mr Thabiso Die, Head of Department (HOD) for Business Studies at the Welkom Campus.

The event was organised in collaboration with the College Centre for Entrepreneurship and the National Youth Development Agency. Students organised simulated corporates and showcased different business concepts from selling food of different cuisines, to promoting arts and crafts and other business ideas.

The purpose of this annual initiative, is to indicate that entrepreneurship education can make a difference! This is because entrepreneurship education seeks to prepare students to be responsible and enterprising individuals.

Individuals who can become entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial thinkers.

The process is one of immersing them in real-life learning experiences. Experiences where they can take risks, manage the results of campaigns, and learn from the outcomes. The College curriculum in both business and human resources management, is all-encompassing with entrepreneurship as a subject. The primary objective is one of developing entrepreneurial capacities and mind-sets. The entrepreneurship programmes have yet to be amply integrated into the student activities. It is deemed essential to provide entrepreneurial education as an accessible option to all Goldfields TVET College students. Innovative business ideas may arise from technical, scientific or creative studies.

On the business simulation day, the students, including those with disabilities, learnt organisational skills, time management, leadership development and interpersonal skills. All of which are skills sought by employers and necessary for one to become a successful entrepreneur.

By Tabitha Kgosimore

Source TVET College Times