Examine the relationship between vocational and entrepreneurship
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1)Vocational education has always been dedicated to preparing its graduates for employment in the workplace--typically in existing businesses. Students learn job-specific and employability skills and are given opportunities to use these skills through work experience programs that connect them with the business community. These experiences help students form a base of knowledge about the function and operation of a business and develop some level of familiarity and comfort with the business environment--two basic elements of entrepreneurship. Vocational educators have come to recognize that starting a business is a natural outgrowth of vocational skills training.
2)The profile of the adult entrepreneur reflects in many ways the characteristics attributed to vocational education students. For example, most entrepreneurs are action-oriented people who believe that working hard and smart is the key to success. Many of them were enterprising children, earning money through babysitting, paper routes, and so forth. They often come from families where one or both parents have owned a business. In fact, over 50 percent of the entrepreneurs have learned how to run a business from observing and working with family members.