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This article attempts to develop a framework to encourage entrepreneurial thinking within higher education. The development of an innovative entrepreneurial culture in South Africa will require a fundamental paradigm shift, influencing teaching methods, curricula and outreach to surrounding poverty-stricken communities. It includes the development of policy, both inside and outside higher education institutions. It outlines the required development of infrastructure including technical licensing offices, a seamless knowledge node, and a network linking with funding agencies and industry. The need for intellectual eminence, human capital, and specialists from both the banking and the industrial sectors is demonstrated. Research needs to be done on several aspects involving business clustering, business development and management of innovation.
This article attempts to develop a framework to encourage entrepreneurial thinking within higher education. The development of an innovative entrepreneurial culture in South Africa will require a fundamental paradigm shift, influencing teaching methods, curricula and outreach to surrounding poverty-stricken communities. It includes the development of policy, both inside and outside higher education institutions. It outlines the required development of infrastructure including technical licensing offices, a seamless knowledge node, and a network linking with funding agencies and industry. The need for intellectual eminence, human capital, and specialists from both the banking and the industrial sectors is demonstrated. Research needs to be done on several aspects involving business clustering, business development and management of innovation.
As lifestyle challenges go, combining earning a living whilst at the same time home educating your children, has to be one of the toughest. I'm assuming, for the purposes of this article, that you're not one of the few home educating families where the parents can afford to go out to work and employ someone to supervise and home educate their children for them. For most families these days, school provides a large chunk of free child-care and this is what many parents exploit in order for them to be able to earn a living whilst raising children. So, what do you do when you do not have access to hours of child-free work time each day? What can you do if you are a single parent and/or home educating very young or disabled children? Tough challenges indeed, but certainly not impossible judging by the number of families I've come across who are, apparently successfully and happily, doing just that. There are many different ways in which families achieve this, although the process of changing their lifestyle has often taken place over several years. How do they manage it?
bethesda doctorTake just a quick look at the effects of the past half-century's attempted educational reforms and it's clear the American public school system has been in decline for the last 50 years, says author and retired educator Renato Nicolai. In his eye-opening new book, "The Nightmare That Is Public Education: An Exposé of What Really Happens in Public Schools," Dr. Nicolai gives his assessment of public education, based on 38 years of experience as a teacher and school administrator. "The public education system is rooted in the false notion that all teachers are qualified educators who can be trusted to make good decisions, follow school district rules and regulations, work together in a spirit of collegiality, promote the welfare of students as a priority, and generally, do what is just, moral and professional," Nicolai says. "This description is simply not true."
