Ten Years of Entrepreneurship Education at Chinese Universities: Evolution, Problems, and System Building

Abstract

Entrepreneurship education has experienced four stages of development in Chinese universities, shifting from entrepreneurship show to entrepreneurship education, from teacher training to student education, from classroom teaching to multimodal teaching, and from imparting knowledge to cultivating skills. Currently, the weak links in entrepreneurship education in Chinese universities are primarily reflected in four areas: unsound curriculum design, a lack of qualified teachers for entrepreneurship education, a monotonous model for entrepreneurship education, and imperfect supporting mechanisms for entrepreneurship education. Constructive ideas for the entrepreneurship education system in Chinese universities are: to build a scientific curriculum-based educational system, establish a perfected entrepreneurial practicum system, build up a system for an outstanding corps of qualified teachers, construct a perfected educational model system, and perfect the evaluation system for entrepreneurship education.

Keywords:

• College students
• entrepreneurship
• entrepreneurship education
• practice-based education
• universities

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This paper is a result of the phased study presided over by Dr. Li Weiming under a National Social Science Foundation Youth Project entitled “Study on the Integration of Entrepreneurship Resources and Mechanisms for Improving the Performance of Newly Established Enterprises” (Project No.: 10CGl034)

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Notes on contributors

Li Weiming

Li Weiming is an associate professor in the School of Economics and Management, Hainan University.

Li Chunyan

Li Chunyan is an associate professor in the School of Economics and Management, Hainan University.

Du Xiaohua

Du Xiaohua is a master’s student in the School of Economics and Management, Hainan University.