Entrepreneurship Education: Core, Context and Challenges Rajiv Joshi* Entrepreneurship Educaion – Introducion Using the tenure of programme as parameter entrepreneurship education and training can be classiied as short duration training programmes and long duration entrepreneurship education programmes covering broad based education of entrepreneurship, business and management. These programmes focus on entrepreneur, enterprise establishment and enterprise management & growth (Dinesh Awasthi, 2011). There exist all genre of entrepreneurship programmes across world; ranging from few entrepreneurship courses as a part of the overall programme to entrepreneurship courses as major part of programme architecture; inally leading to academic qualiication. Entrepreneurship education evolved from a single course on entrepreneurship offered to business and engineering students, then more courses as entrepreneurship concentration area and inally evolved as matured entrepreneurship education programme. In certain cases, such programmes were offered with other existing management education or business education programmes. Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) was pioneer to start a long duration full- ledged one year post graduate diploma programme on business entrepreneurship and management in 1998. Core of these programmes is evolution, validation and acceptance of fact that entrepreneurs can be created and trained; they are not necessarily born. This paper explores the challenges, issues and overall theme and substance of entrepreneurship education (EE). Deinition of entrepreneurship as adopted by the institutes * Associate Sr. Faculty, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. E-mail: rajiv@ediindia.org Abstract Impact of entrepreneurship activities on nation building and its catalyst effect to the socio-economic development have been well-discussed topics. Governments initiated various interventions and programmes to foster entrepreneurial endeavours. Concurrently, academia also started designing and delivering structured long duration entrepreneurship education programmes targeted at young students. These days, business schools from across the world offer an array of entrepreneurship modules and programmes. The entrepreneurship modules and programmes witnessed evolution with entrepreneurship irst as an elective course; added by more courses; further as concentration area; and inally as a long duration programme. In its essence, entrepreneurship education is complex due to multi-disciplinary approach; challenges of curriculum design and delivery; and issues and challenges of pedagogical tools. Dearth of entrepreneurship educators further contributes to the challenges. With the propagation of Indian academia offering entrepreneurship education programmes, current challenges confronting entrepreneurship education need to be examined. This paper endeavours to identify and classify challenges, issues, themes and different models of entrepreneurship education. Further, it revolves around, current practices of entrepreneurship education and ways to address challenges and issues of entrepreneurship education. Keyword: Entrepreneurship Teaching, Evolution, Pedagogy, Curriculum Article can be accessed online at http://www.publishingindia.com