Parents and students at the Island’s schools are being asked to contribute to an online survey asking how far education goes to encourage youngsters to be entrepreneurial and how well prepared they are to make their own job rather than just take a job.  The survey has been prepared by the Green Team from this year’s Manx Executive Challenge, whose project is to create an environment where the Isle of Man can lead in ‘Entrepreneurism and Innovation’.

Part of this vision is to introduce the necessary business and entrepreneurial skills to the education system, which would enable future generations to pursue their own business dreams and create a pool of entrepreneurs and innovators, putting the Isle of Man firmly on the map as an ‘Innovation Isle’.

The Green Team is keen to gather opinions on both current and future education requirements to establish if education can equip students to make their own job in the future and develop important modern day business skills to prepare them for the workplace.

The online survey is available at www.envyiom.com and through the Green Team’s Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook pages.

The results of the survey and the Green Team’s project findings will be available after the project presentation, which will be made to the Manx Executive Challenge judges in May 2012.

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Facebook – MEC Green Team 2011
Linkedin – MEC Green Team 2011

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