Enterprising Colleges
Sally Dicketts: Principal
Gazelle Group of Colleges
Twenty like minded colleges who want to
transform themselves to help students
learn better and become more
employable
 World changing place
 Employment will be different and unknown
 So we will now need to demonstrate broad portfolio of
personal and professional capabilities to engage
effectively with others to create value
Agile colleges for agile learners
Learning requires:
Brain
Motivation
Emotional intelligence
The understanding of how our brain works
and how we learn is changing!
Emotional style:
Consistent way of responding to the
experiences of our lives. It is governed by
specific, identifiable brain circuits and can
be measured using objective laboratory
methods.
Emotional style comprises 6 dimensions. They reflect the
discoveries of modern neuro-scientific research:
 Resilience : how slowly or quickly you recover from
adversity
 Outlook : how long you are able to sustain positive
emotion
 Social intuition : how adept you are at picking up social
signals
 Self-awareness : how well you perceive bodily feelings
that reflect emotions
 Sensitivity to Context : how good you are at regulating
your emotional responses to take into account the
context you find yourself in
 Attention: how sharp and clear your focus is
The Brain has a property called neuroplasticity the ability to change its structure
and patterns of activity in significant ways
not only in childhood but also in adulthood
and throughout life.
Motivation
Purpose
Autonomy
Mastery
So what does this mean to our
college:
 Introduced
– 4:1:1
 Learning cycle
 Flip teaching
 Learning companies
A new curriculum paradigm
Why review the curriculum model
• Re-invigorate teaching & learning and improve the
student experience
• A vehicle to bring a stronger enterprise and
employability focus to our curriculum and establish a
differentiated competitive advantage.
Why review the curriculum model
• Support improvement to student satisfaction, student
attendance, student retention and achievement
• Seeks to maintain high levels of student supported
guided learning whilst reducing overall costs in line
with Government funding cuts
What is it?
Which areas are running the
• Caring & Health
• Engineering
• Business & ICT
• Creative Arts
• Hair, Beauty, Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
• Leisure, Sports & Public Services
Learning Zones
Week 6 – Enterprise & Employability
The Enterprise Cycle
If Enterprise is central to the 4one1 model and key to
students developing employability skills, we must live by
our college values of innovate inspire and respect.
SweetFE represents the difference between running
enterprise courses and embracing a business enterprise
culture and inspiring entrepreneurship in staff and students.
Shortlisted for the Award in
Outstanding Entrepreneurship in
Learning and Skills
Learning Companies to which students will be recruited on learning
contracts, combining paid work with practice-based education and a
variety of personal and team challenges.
Students will be encouraged to negotiate their own journeys through
these opportunities, as will be necessary throughout their working
careers. Their experiences will build a foundation of entrepreneurial
capabilities and achievements, empowering them to pursue
successful employment or business venture
Entrepreneurial Colleges, and the Learning Companies
that they operate, are designed to mirror the networked,
collaborative world that they are preparing their students
for.
Journey from dependant learner to
autonomous employee
Coaching;
Learners are supported
by learning coaches to
stretch their learning
beyond their current
horizons and develop
semi independance
Learning;
Students learn skills
and knowledge
through via 21st
Century Learning
Practicing;
Learning practice the
application of skills and
knowledge by working
in learning companies
and develop enterprise
and employability by
contributing to real
business success
Being;
Learners become
paid employees of a
learning company and
achieve mastery,
autonomy and
purpose
THANK YOU