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rise Hertfordshire is part of the East of England region of Young Enterprise UK.

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The benefits of our programmes


Our schools, teachers and students face many challenges with ever increasing workloads. Young Enterprise aims to help education meet some of those challenges.

Benefits for Schools/Colleges and Link Teachers

  • Strengthens education and business links
  • Raises awareness of the needs of business
  • Develops extra-curricular activities
  • Offers their students the opportunity to develop management and business skills
  • Adds to teacher’s qualifications - Link Teachers certificate - and furthers the career prospects of Link Teachers
  • Enhances the image of the school/college within the community
  • Provides additional publicity through Young Enterprise activities
  • Encourages student led activity and gives the opportunity to develop a mature relationship with students
  • Complimentary in other areas of study providing skills evidence
  • Underpins GNVQ studies
  • All Young Enterprise Programmes at Key Stage 4 are mapped against the nine elements of the Work Related Learning Framework. A leaflet is available on request to show how each programme meets the specification of the national curriculum.

Benefits for Students

  • An understanding of how business works and how wealth and employment is created
  • The opportunity to gain a variety of business and management skills
  • The ability to work in a team
  • Improved communication skills and time management skills
  • Self-development particularly inter-personal skills and core skills
  • Motivation, enthusiasm and self confidence
  • An opportunity to take responsibility and initiative
  • An opportunity to use advisers as role models for the future and raise aspirations
  • Experience of key business functions – marketing, sales, personnel, finance etc.
  • Be work ready and employable with increased awareness of careers available
  • Develop aspirations of self employment
  • Nationally recognized level 1 or 2 qualification

 

 


 




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