Firm supports business education in schools

 

 

Secondary school students

Ozioma Ubabukoh

Franchise and Enterprise Concerns Limited, the operator of the GoVenture Canada franchise in Nigeria, has introduced the ‘Start-your-business’ workbooks, flash cards, board games and simulations to teach business education in schools across the country.

The firm premised its position on the continuous clamour for the teaching of business education in Nigerian schools as a way of reducing unemployment and building entrepreneurs from the classroom.

The Managing Director of the company, Mr. Wale Williams, said, “Under the process of ‘Educate, Play, Compete’, the firm had before now introduced the Goventure Enterprise board games with simulations for lemonade business, micro business and enterprise business.”

He said, “Furthermore, the firm now developed the ‘Start-your-business’ workbooks for primary, junior secondary and senior secondary schools with the ‘Practice makes Perfect’ flash cards to ensure that as they learn about enterprise, they perform excellently too in their studies.”

Williams said the project had been approved by the Federal Ministry of Education as ideal for teaching business education for both basic and post-basic institutions.

He said, “The ‘Start-your-business’ workbooks are the first of its kind anywhere and it is proudly Nigerian. It is ideal for home or school studies.

“The GoVenture games and simulations are already in more than 20 countries and they come with their own curricula and simulations.

“The ‘Practice makes Perfect’ flash cards are past questions to assist junior and senior secondary school students to perform well in their studies and future examinations.”

He said the ‘Start your business’ workbooks came with ‘play money’, cheques and practical business assignments that have the capability of inculcating business ideas in children and youths and can be practised either at home or in school.

He said all the students in schools that run the programmes became instant members of ‘Biz with Kids (junior)’ and ‘TEENBIZ (senior)’. “In our partner schools, while trainings are going on practical market day competitions will run monthly to ensure the continuous practicality of the ideas taught to them,” Williams said.

He added, “Furthermore, the students will convert their ‘Play Money’ to real money and open accounts either individually or as a group. This will ensure that micro groups formed even from schools will be maintained as they grow, thus translating into fully fledged companies.”