Entrepreneurship education is about learners developing the skills and mindset to be able to turn creative ideas into entrepreneurial action. This is a key competence for all learners, supporting personal development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employability. It is relevant across the lifelong learning process, in all disciplines of learning and to all forms of education and training (formal, non-formal and informal) which contribute to an entrepreneurial spirit or behaviour, with or without a commercial objective.
Source:Thematic Working Group on Entrepreneurship Education - Final Report
Feedback is often collected from students and from teachers and trainers, but, as a Quality
Manager, you should not underestimate the importance of having external feedback on the
activities and on the results of the training.
As a Quality Manager, it is important that you gather teachers’/trainers’ feedback about the learning
environment to review their practice. Teachers’ and trainers’ feedback is important, because it
influences the learning process, but also results of their learners. There are several elements that
need to be included in the teacher/trainer feedback process, such as the facilities and equipment
available in order to give proper classes to their students.
In order to meet the needs of the learners and thus to provide the best VET entrepreneurship
education possible, as a Quality Manager you need to gain learner feedback on their learning
experience. Thus, education can be improved in a way that enables learners to make the most of
themselves.
While your VET institution and its quality management system might be in perfect working order,
there is always something you can learn from others as a Quality Manager, especially in contexts
where many different providers and stakeholders come together. Participating in external networks,
especially at EU level, is a way to offer VET staff as well as students interesting opportunities for
learning, exchange and cooperation, as well as to improve the quality of your VET provision.
To enhance the quality of education and make your VET institution a dynamic educational
environment, it is important to design links with external collaborators, but also to engage them in
your educational practices. As Quality Manager, you should be aware that, for VET providers,
cooperation with external stakeholders and in particular the world of work is a key activity with
many different benefits for the quality of the training.
As a QM, one of the first steps, in order to create entrepreneurship courses, is to develop an
adequate Training Needs Analysis (TNA) Methodology.
A Quality Manager needs to have a clear idea about what entrepreneurship is in Europe, as there is no international consensus about its definition and there is still no consensus about what the distinctive elements of entrepreneurship as a competence are.
The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (JRC, 2016) defines entrepreneurship as “Entrepreneurship is when you act upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into value for others. The value that is created can be financial, cultural, or social” (FFE – YE, 2012).
The PDCA Cycle is an iterative quality improvement model that you can apply to any aspect of the functioning of your VET institution. It consists of a logical sequence of four steps:
Plan: define a problem and hypothesize possible causes and solutions;
Do: implement a solution;
Check: evaluate the results;
On June 22-23, IN-QUAL partners met online to wrap up the socially-distanced work of the past few months and make plans for the last phase of the project.
The IN-QUAL project is the result of a European partnership committed to
On November 7-8, IN-QUAL partners met once again to wrap up the work done over the summer and plan the next steps.