During Day 2 of the 3rd Higher Education Conference by Universities South Africa, Ms Elona Ndlovu, a Chartered Coach and Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), spoke about experiential learning and practical business education to inspire young entrepreneurs. Drawing from her extensive years as a business coach, Ndlovu underlined the need for urgency in rethinking traditional models of entrepreneurship education to match the real-world challenges and opportunities that students will face.
In her talk addressing Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Ms Ndlovu appealed to institutions to make their entrepreneurship teaching more practical and applied. She said the programmes should instill in students, the confidence to tackle the complex and competitive business world. “We need to be bold as entrepreneurship educators, and ask ourselves what we produce at the end of our entrepreneurship programmes”.