ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IS A MUST

In 2004 – 2007 university graduated unemployment reach more than 50% compared with Diploma graduated unemployment. In this situation, unemployment problem will impact negatively to social stability. This condition is supported by fact that the most of university graduated unemployment are job seekers than job creators. It is happened because learning system in universities is focused on how to prepare the students graduate fast and get job,  not to prepare them as job creator. So, it’s very important for universities to motivate their students be young entrepreneurs. One effort to overcome and prevent unemployment among the educated, especially the students, is a need to prepare for entrepreneurial generation seriously since elementary school. It  will create the young generation as job creators, not job seekers.  

Changing students’ mindset from job seeker to be job creator is not easy. At least there are two ways for changing students’ mind set, namely developing an entrepreneurship curriculum and entrepreneurship project. The entrepreneurship curriculum need to ensure contact/interaction with the real world, balance between knowledge and the application, have long term orientation and fulfill all relevant stakeholders. In the other side, entrepreneurship project is an effective way to change mindset and develop entrepreneurship traits and life skill. It gives students real and personal entrepreneurship experience, an opportunity to test a business, training to manage success and failure.