Mainstreaming entrepreneurship in educational curricula towards social change in ten years

CERD organised in collaboration with DPNA a meeting with the media to share their joint project seeking to mainstream the concept of entrepreneurship in pre-university educational curricula as well as in vocational training programmes.  Osama Ghoneim, the president of the vocational and technical education at CERD presented the broad strokes of the project whilst highlighting that it is still in its pilot phases in a number of public schools which have already mainstreamed entrepreneurship in economics which was renamed "entrepreneurship and economics".

The president of CERD, Leila Fayyad, noted that the scientific implementation of the project will be through activities focusing on the main principles of entrepreneurship for the complementary level whilst they will focus on life skills for the secondary levels and will delve further in depth with the subject at university level.  She also added that the project is in two parts: teaching entrepreneurship at schools and spreading the culture of entrepreneurship win the community and with the aim of realising a tangible social change within ten years.

The DPNA project manager, Rami Shamma, pointed out to data included in a report issued by Central Bank which shows that 91% of investments in the private sector are concentrated in Beirut and Mount Lebanon whilst the share of South Lebanon, the Beqaa and the North in investment is only 3%. Thus, the organisation sees the need to spread a culture of entrepreneurship as well as support small and medium enterprises in rural areas in partnership wit the private and public sector as well as NGOs and so as to limit the migration from rural areas to the cities.

Source: Al-Akhbar, Al-Nahar 31 January 2014