Billabong High International School Curriculum: Facilitating Entrepreneurial Education to Live in VUCA World

Abstract

In India, state boards have been the mode to certify students in their respective states. Every state has its certified board for higher and senior secondary education like UP Board, MP Board, Bihar Board, Maharashtra Board, Gujarat Board, and Karnatak Board, etc. CBSE board came with a vision on 3rd November 1962. Education is an ongoing and continuously changing pathway, where each day is a new day with different experiences and learning. International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) yet another system came into existence, which has been caressing the entrepreneurial spirit within students. This board comes under the University of Cambridge U.K. parallel with the existing curriculum. This curriculum imparts life skills and values in students to make them a future-ready generation and has started gaining traction in India. Twenty years ago, IGCSE became the most popular international program for students aged 14-16 (Cambridge International Education). Billabong High International School is one such school in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, where IGCSE is in practice along with CBSE board. IGCSE aims at creating the future-ready generation to create future entrepreneurs, where the aim is to prepare students for volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) situations, likely to be in future due to turbulent nature of environment in business. IGCSE has an inventive curriculum and aims in bringing the entrepreneurial spirit in the incumbent student in the longer run, thereby, making them future ready entrepreneur.