Should schools teach how to start a business?

Student at Global College

What do people need for a career as a self-employed person?

(Photo: Global College)

Madrid Germany’s students learn too little about business – this complaint comes regularly from companies and employers’ associations. Companies report on school leavers who are unprepared for the economic reality. Economics is a compulsory subject in only two of the 16 federal states, and in none of them does the number of hours taught reach the value of minor subjects such as geography or biology.

Germany must find ways to “upgrade the topic of business and economic education in the curricula across the board,” demands Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck. A look at Spain could be worthwhile for this.

A private school with a very special teaching concept opened in Madrid last September. The name says it all at the Global College: 112 students from 24 nations learn here. The language of instruction is English, but many of the 15 to 16-year-olds can communicate in more than two languages.

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