PUTRAJAYA: The Higher Education Ministry launched the Higher Education Institution Entrepreneur Action Plan 2016-2020, a strategic document to implement and develop entrepreneurial education at Higher Education Institutions (HEI) today.
Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh , who launched the plan, said the plan was a part of the implementation of Malaysia Education Blue Print 2015-2020 (Higher Education).
The action plan was also a continuation of the HEI Entrepreneur Development Policy launched in April 13, 2010 and the HEI Entrepreneur Strategic Plan 2013-2015 that helped improve the involvement and participation of students in business activities.
“The action plan has four initiatives based on two strategies under the education blueprint Shift 1, focusing on the development of students and system aspirations in producing holistic, balanced and entrepreneurial graduates.
“The four initiatives include High impact education practices, job creator framework, improving the student entrepreneur development support ecosystem, and strengthening the entrepreneur teaching force competency.
“These initiatives will further strengthen the HEI entrepreneur ecosystem with 100 per cent involvement from students in the activities, 15 per cent HEI students involved in businesses during their study and five per cent of the graduates in entrepreneurship by 2020,” he said.
After the launch, two memorandum of understanding (MoUs) were exchanged between the ministry and Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Bhd (PUNB) as well as Celcom Axiata Bhd (Celcom).
Present at the MoU exchange were PUNB chief executive Datuk Dzulkifli Fadzilah and Celcom chief executive officer Datuk Seri Shazali Ramly.
Idris witnessed the MoU exchange between the companies and the ministry together with deputy minister Datuk Mary Yap.