Schools Enterprise Initiative
Gordon Brown has unveiled plans for the UK’s first-ever enterprise education schools to be launched next year. The government will launch 11 Enterprise Summer School pathfinders in every region of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland and will begin admitting students by summer 2006, the chancellor confirmed. The initial schools will be monitored and evaluated for a national roll-out in 2007.
The pathfinders will test different residential and non-residential models, focusing on individual development of attitudes and qualities for enterprise. Approximately 600 students aged 14 to 16 will take part in the test run next summer, interacting with local business leaders, teachers and enterprise advisers in various entrepreneurial activities.
Speaking in Manchester, the chancellor said the schools will “help young people with ideas, energy and talent realise their ambitions and become the next generation of British entrepreneurs.†Brown said that his Pre-Budget Report due next month will announce further measures to boost Britain’s enterprise culture.
Did “Young Enterprise†just grow up? Or did the government forget about the fact that it has already been encouraging entrepreneurial spirit for 40 years? I’m a great believer in enterprise and entrepreneurism, and in fact ran a Young Enterprise company myself may moons ago, but can somebody shed some light on how the governments new initiative is somehow different to what we already have?
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