The Ministry of Education and other key stakeholders define Education for Enterprise as:
"...a teaching and learning process directed towards developing in young people those skills, competencies, understandings, and attributes which equip them to be innovative, and to identify, create, initiate, and successfully manage personal, community, business, and work opportunities, including working for themselves."
Enterprising attributes
The following are attributes of enterprising students:
• generating, identifying, and assessing opportunities
• identifying, assessing, and managing risks
• collecting organising and analysing information
• generating and using creative ideas and processes
• identifying solving and preventing problems
• identifying, recruiting, and managing resources
• matching personal goals and capabilities to an undertaking
• working with others and in teams
• being flexible and dealing with change
• negotiating and influencing
• using initiative and drive
• monitoring and evaluating
• communicating and receiving ideas and information
• planning and organising
• being fair and responsible.
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