Abstract:

The article presents the interim results of a study on whether young Russians consider their basic knowledge gained through schooling to be useful for doing business, as well as their willingness to do business, which has become especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Having set the goal of assessing the usefulness of knowledge gained in a modern general education school for doing business, the following issues are addressed in the article: to study and systematize the results of previous studies of key competencies of Russians, to find out the opinion of residents about the usefulness and sufficiency of their general knowledge for entrepreneurial activity, to study the general impression of respondents about their literacy level, highlighting the "weak points" of the current school system in recent years and suggest approaches to their solutions. Comparison of the intermediate results obtained with the results of related studies, especially in OECD countries, allowed the author to draw interesting conclusions that will be of interest not only to methodologists-developers of curricula, officials who formulate plans for reforming the education system but also to politicians who are not indifferent to the problem of developing entrepreneurship.