Go Negosyo to keep mentoring students

GO Negosyo founder Jose Ma. «Joey» Concepcion III on Monday assured parents that the private sector's partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) for entrepreneurship mentoring for students will continue despite the change in the agency's leadership.

Concepcion noted how he has «done projects together» with DepEd Secretary Sonny Angara, and lauded the former senator's «active and aggressive» support for Go Negosyo's past initiatives.

He also expressed confidence the same will be done with the private sector's projects for micro, small and medium enterprises.

Entrepreneurship Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion meets with Education Secretary Juan Edgardo Angara to discuss the continuation of the nonprofit’s entrepreneurship and other programs that are being conducted with the support of the Education Department. These include Youthpreneur, Pampaaralang Taniman sa Agribida, The Boardroom Experience, and Mentoring the Mentors. Contributed photo

Concepcion, who is also the Private Sector Advisory Council lead for jobs, disclosed that the meeting with Angara last August 6 focused on the current programs being implemented as part of Go Negosyo's tie-up with DepEd.

One such initiative is the Youthpreneur program focusing on senior high school students.

«We bring in the mentors to give them a teaser. In other words, you don't come in and load them with a lot of information,» Concepcion said in the «Bagong Pilipinas» TV briefing.

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«That is a [full] program that we do on teaching and telling them what entrepreneurship is. Because many of the students, especially those in senior high school, that's really the beginning. You have to really understand marketing, sales, accounting, finance — four basic things that they will have to master in school, and that's very important,» he said.

Teachers will also undergo coaching through Go Negosyo's «Mentoring the Mentors» program as «they will have to know what to teach» inside the classroom, he added.

These initiatives were part of a memorandum of agreement Go Negosyo and DepEd signed in November 2023, he said.

«So, [you'll] either be an employer or an employee. And know what it takes to be an employer and an