Gen Z is composed of the most driven, passionate, and inventive would-be entrepreneurs in the future. Born in the dot-com era, their skill versatility proves that they are relentless learners who are always ready to innovate and create. This is their advantage in a world that now focuses on skills instead of merit.
As a tech-savvy generation who are more empowered and informed, they also exhibit a stronger sense of purpose. 60% of Gen Z’s want jobs that enable them to make a change. This drive, coupled with their advanced skill set, gives them higher expectations of the type of education presented to them.
In a country struggling to keep up with the inevitable disruption of higher education, our generation of GenZ is left with very few options.
And that is what The ONE School understands very well.
A Purpose-driven Entrepreneurship
Today’s youth are drawn to entrepreneurship as a vehicle to achieve their personal dream and make a larger impact. According to Dr. Lex Ledesma, Co-Founder of The ONE School, “a business is an extension of the founder. The core values of the founder bleed into the business, inevitably.” In other words, businesses built by students represent what they value and believe in.
Success Stories Turned Mentors
The ONE School’s Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship is the institution’s banner degree in personalized education that aims to foster future entrepreneurs based on their individual strengths, values, and purpose. Apart from its faculty, The ONE School also has a core network of real-life entrepreneurs as student advisors. This is why one of the core pillars of the school experience is designed around mentorship.
Hybrid and Immersive Workschooling
At The ONE School, a degree is not the only thing students will receive upon graduating. Their student life will be a hybrid of intensive learning and building their own venture. Apart from the virtual classroom set-up, they will also be immersed in a real business environment where they can learn firsthand concepts like operations, management, or ideation.
Edric Mendoza, Chairman of Homeschool Global and now the new Managing Director at The ONE School, firmly push this non-traditional concept as effective formula for learning. “We are confident that our success in the K-12 homeschooling sphere can be reinvented into workschooling to address the ongoing disruption in higher education learning.”
Flexible and Open Access
Today’s businesses are more agile than ever. Even in the face of a pandemic, entrepreneurs still made it possible for businesses to emerge and reemerge.
“The ONE School makes sure that learning could also occur in the same work paradigms as today’s major industries thrive in.”, Edric adds. Through its open-access learning management systems, students could manage their time, learn at their pace and ultimately develop a lifestyle of independent learning.
As a non-traditional school, The ONE School does not limit itself to practices that no longer serve the times. Rather, the school understands that the world, as well as the very industry of business and commerce itself, is continuously evolving. With the rapid technological shift, The ONE School provides its students the option to maximize their student life in building and defining what kind of entrepreneurs they will be in the future.