Argument against College Students from all majors getting acquainted with startup experience. Mr. President, Mr., With the following arguments, I plan to contradict the point that "College Students from all majors around campus should get acquainted with startup experience."
Not all majors require entrepreneurship or startup skills. While we all recognize the value of students gaining expertise with start-ups, not all majors at this college need entrepreneurship or start-up skills to make it outside of college. The reasoning behind this stance is that certain majors, such as nursing, radiography, and engineering, need qualification and approval by the appropriate bodies. This means that once the doctor, engineer or radiographer gets approved, then the next step will be to get a job with a government hospital or agency to practice his skills and showcase his or her competencies. You see, we will not be adding any value to these group of students if we make it compulsory for them to undergo start-up experiences.
Focus on majors that require startup knowledge. Secondly, some majors, especially those related to education, business, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance and political science require start-up knowledge and it could be efficient if we only isolate this group of students and have them undertake such experiences because it will help them in their lives after college. Apart from supplementing their knowledge in their subjects, the experience will prepare them for future practice, but this should not involve all students.
Mr. Speaker Sir, in his paper on "Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy," Shane Scott found flaws in the emphasis policy makers had laid on the creation of more start-up companies. In his findings, he discovered that typical start-ups created few job opportunities and were not quite creative, and thus advised the policy makers to focus more on those business subsets with potential for superior growth (Shane 141-42). In view of this, I vehemently oppose the proposition that seeks to encourage the idea of having all students from all majors across campus to undergo start-up experience. Instead, the university needs to focus on specialty where the nature of the course or major determines the content to be covered.
Work Cited
Shane, Scott. Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy. Small Business Economics, 33.2 (2009), pp.141-149.
