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What is Enterprise Education?
“the ability to handle uncertainty and respond positively to change, to create and implement new ideas and ways of doing things, to make reasonable risk/reward assessments and act upon them in one’s personal and work life.”
Davies Report 2002
“Enterprise capability can also be described as innovation, creativity, risk management and a can-do attitude and the drive to make ideas happen.”
DfES 2002
“Enterprise Education is vital to our future economic success. It equips young people with vital skills that businesses have told us they want to see more of. This isn’t just about growing the next generation of entrepreneurs; enterprise skills will be valuable to all young people. A can-do enterprising mindset offers powerful benefits for individuals, such as more personal control, self expression and recognition in their life.”
Charles Clarke December 2004
“An enterprising school is one where students are expected to take personal responsibility for their own actions in an area where there may be uncertainty about final outcomes. They are given autonomy to tackle problems or issues that involve an element of risk as well as reward for their successful resolution.”
Ofsted November 2005
“The school aims to enable all its young people to be enterprising so that they can achieve their full potential in their families, their education and lifelong learning, their working lives and their community. Our policy sets out the knowledge, skills and attributes we expect students to develop through enterprise education, the teaching and learning styles needed and how it is to be managed.”
Extract school policy Ofsted 2005
For more information on the Hertfordshire Enterprise Learning Partnership (HELP) please log on to www.enterprisevillage.org.uk for lots of useful information.
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