Welcome to IECD! Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development

The Bharathidasan University has established the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (IECD) with a view to fill the serious gap in our educational system, viz. lack of opportunities for promoting entrepreneurship among the students. Most of our conventional programmes at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the University system turn out graduates and postgraduates who are neither inclined nor equipped to establish and run enterprises of their own involving managerial and organisational skills. They are seldom given hands-on-experience and skills and they are not confident of becoming entrepreneurs. Another weakness in the existing programmes is the structural rigidity under which the teachers and the taught are not in a position to attain the relevant skills and field exposure, even if they want to. The learners are constrained by the curricular rigidities which lead them to a structured degree or PG programme. As a result, the tertiary education produces the employment seekers in the form of graduates rather than employment generators in the form of entrepreneurs.

Vice-Chancellor Message

The Govt of Tamil Nadu has brought out Tamil Nadu vision 2023 policy document for the holistic development of Tamil Nadu. In the vision 2023 document under its Thrust on Skill Development emphasize as "The single most important resource for the success of Vision 2022 would be the availability of trained, knowledgeable and skilled manpower in Tamil Nadu. Without a body of sufficiently skilled and balanced workforce, no economy can hope to develop to its potential. Vision 2023, under its Education and Skills Mission, aims to establish a robust human resources pipeline by the following measures:

Providing universal access, equity, quality at primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary level
Increasing the enrolment in higher education (including vocational education) to over 50% Skill and train 20 million people with focus on employability"

Dr. V. M. Muthukumar
Vice-Chancellor

Dr. E. Ramganesh
Chair - SSDE and Director

Director Message

Most of our conventional programmes at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the university system turn out graduates and post graduates who are neither inclined nor equipped to establish and run enterprises of their own involving managerial and organizational skills. They are seldom given hands-on-experience and skills and they are not confident of becoming entrepreneurs. Another weakness in the existing programmes the structural and curricular rigidity under which the teachers and the taught are not in a position to attain the relevant skills and field exposure, even if they willing. As a result, the tertiary education produces the employment seekers in the form of graduates rather than employment generators in the form of entrepreneurs. Keeping the above in mind Bharathidasan University has conceptualised a massive institutional structure known as Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development which will be a flexible skill-based training centre in order to enrich the current as well as drop-out and passed out students with vocational skills leading to self-employment, eventually enabling them to emerge as successful entrepreneurs in the respective fields.

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The learners are constrained by the curricular rigidities which lead them to a structured degree or PG programme. As a result, the tertiary education produces the employment seekers in the form of graduates rather than employment generators in the form of entrepreneurs.