ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship education has seen worldwide exponential growth and has become an essential part of innovation, industrial and educational policy in many countries. This paper explores entrepreneurship education (EE) and employability agenda in Malaysia. Although many scholars state that there is only one way for students to learn to become entrepreneurial, and that is by learning through their own experience, the development is still underway towards following such a method, which includes embedding entrepreneurial education with the outcome of start-up formation or/and as a way to support and increase students’ employability. We outline Malaysia’s missionary top-down approach towards supporting EE, and we discuss whether its implementation is likely to encourage universities to behave in ways that are supporting education for entrepreneurship, through entrepreneurship or about entrepreneurship. We propose a synergistic learning platform to practice entrepreneurship to help integrate university-level curriculum with national programmes to support the employability agenda.
