New approaches to the education of entrepreneurs

The article is devoted to the prospects of the development of education of entrepreneurs taking into account the accumulated practice of forming new approaches to business education. Modern Russian society needs educated, moral, enterprising people which can independently accept critical decisions in a situation of choice. For effective business activities necessary to prepare innovative professionals possessing appropriate knowledge and competencies. Such specialists, as international experience shows, can be trained not only in the course of training in economic specialties in business education, but also on the basis of the creation of a multi-level system of vocational education. Priority directions of modern education is to teach different categories of citizens the basics of entrepreneurship, their adaptation and orientation in market conditions, the formation of economic thinking, the development of economic culture.