This article is concerned with the position of entrepreneurial (business) education in the structure of lifelong learning and in the system of further education. It traces the dynamics of the development of business education in roughly the last 16 years in the practice of firms in the Czech Republic and shows how demands on the results of the education concerned have changed in that period. It also documents changed in the methods and organisational framework (forms) of this training as some organisations have switched to internal education and mutual learning between staff based on practical experienced and the unmediated application of new skills.