Delhi Government Announces Entrepreneurship Curriculum With No Books And No Exams

The Delhi Government recently announced soon-to-be-launched entrepreneurship curriculum, and according to an official statement, it will have no involvement of exams or books in its curriculum. The entrepreneurship curriculum will be in its pilot run in April before officially being launched in government schools in May.

In preparation for this new scheme, the government had organized a workshop which saw participation from nearly 80 NGOs, teachers, and other individuals. The participants were divided into four thematic groups of content development, teacher training, ongoing support and mentorship-cum-startup support. Each group then presented its suggestions for the design and implementation of an entrepreneurship mindset curriculum to the audience.

The Entrepreneurship Curriculum will be introduced to six lakh students studying in class 9 to 12 for the 2019-2020 academic year. In its governing council meeting, the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) approved the framework of entrepreneurship curriculum. The meeting was chaired by chaired by Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia.

The framework has been made by a 16-member committee comprising SCERT teachers, NCERT teachers working on entrepreneurship, teachers of prominent private schools and many experts of the field, said an official statement. The framework will be formally released on February 13.

The entrepreneurship curriculum will be based on activity rather than books or examinations. Syllabus and learning lessons will form a large part of the curriculum. The main purpose of the entrepreneurship curriculum is to prepare the students to face the challenges of life beyond education in a better way.

“Although the fulcrum idea behind Entrepreneurship Curriculum is to help students strive to become job givers, instead of job seekers, but having said that, the entrepreneurial ‘mindset’ is important in all walks of life, for a businessman as well as for an officer. The same mindset led Mark Zuckerberg to build Facebook, Verghese Kurien to lead the second biggest dairy of India, AMUL, right from its inception,” said Sisodia.

He also added that idea is to impart an ‘entrepreneurial mindset’ to the students, and the courage to think big and new.