A Study On Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum In Universities In UK

With the continuous development of knowledge economy society, the whole society is constantly changing, and the uncertainty and not continuity is more and more manifest. This uncertainty and discontinuity causing factors of core competition between nations is no longer just limited to the economic development, enterprise management capacity and science and technology development level, but more to reflect on the country’s innovation and entrepreneurship. Based on this, Since the second world war, innovation and entrepreneurship had become a trend, and this trend driven the development of entrepreneurship education in the field of education and made the national colleges and universities actively commit to innovation and entrepreneurial talent cultivation. Entrepreneurship education courses as the core part of entrepreneurship education is the bridge theory and practice of entrepreneurship education. In addition, it is the mediation of entrepreneurship education goals to achieve. So it is attract a lot of attention.In recent years, Britain, the United States and other developed countries have devoted to entrepreneurship education. they have built a mature entrepreneurship education curriculum system. In China, the entrepreneurship education started lately,the entrepreneurship education course is still in construction, and urgently need the guidance of the theory of entrepreneurship education. Selecting Britain which have the same traditional background and have the successful experience of the entrepreneurship education as the research object, based on the entrepreneurship education curriculum structure elements and the entrepreneurship education courses at the university of Strathclyde, I will summarize the development and setting characteristics of British universities entrepreneurship education curriculum. In addition, I will use the comparative way to extract the problem of university entrepreneurship education curriculum in China. Getting inspiration in the final.British university entrepreneurship education curriculum has experienced threedevelopment period. The initial period is vocational training courses, the second period aim to develop the courses which cultivate the consciousness and ability of entrepreneurship, the third period is the period of embedding the entrepreneurship concept into courses. The curriculum development and design from relying on the experience to the scientific theoretical guidance. we can conclude that, British universities entrepreneurship education curriculum system construction have been relatively mature, and the development of entrepreneurship education courses have a strong scientific nature, for example, they have the characteristic of the entrepreneurship education curriculum goal, complete entrepreneurship education curriculum structure and content, diversity of entrepreneurship education curriculum implementation methods and learning mode, gradually mature entrepreneurship education curriculum evaluation system, and perfect entrepreneurship education courses generation and operation support system.Analysing the entrepreneurship education courses at the university of strathclyde can extract the details of the Entrepreneurship education courses. the most important is "about" entrepreneurship education courses, "For" entrepreneurship education courses and "among" entrepreneurial education courses.Compared with the British universities entrepreneurship education courses, our country have a great progress in terms of entrepreneurship education course construction, but there are still some problems: the development of entrepreneurship education curriculum lack of theoretical basis, the goal of entrepreneurship education curriculum is not reasonable, entrepreneurship education discipline marginalization phenomenon is serious, entrepreneurship education courses popularity is not high and have elite tendency, the monotony of entrepreneurship education curriculum implementation methods and evaluation, and the entrepreneurship education courses security system is not sound. we should strengthen entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education theory research. Establish distinct entrepreneurship education curriculum goal. Promote the fusion of entrepreneurship education and professional education and set up the embedded entrepreneurship education courses.Establish full coverage and hierarchical entrepreneurship education curriculumstructure system. Form the diverse entrepreneurship education curriculum implementation methods and learning mode. Build the standard evaluation system.Construct the supporting system for the construction of entrepreneurship education courses.