Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
S’EEN practioner’s workshop
21 September 2006
Yarnfield Conference Centre
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S'EEN school leaders workshop
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Aims – when I leave I will know;
• the current context for enterprise education
• how I can apply an enterprising approach to planning
• what S’EEN is for and how it will operate
• what the TLA is and how it can help me
• the questions leadership group should be able to
answer
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Starter and ice breaker
• take a character card from the envelope on your
table
• another person with a character from the same
cartoon or film
• tell each other about something your school has
done over the last year that is connected with
enterprise
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Enterprise
•a
readiness to embark on bold new ventures
• taking risks to achieve success
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Current context
• enterprise education in UK has a long and
chequered history
• TVEI, local level partnerships, EBLOs, TECs etc
• provision was inconsistent and not backed up by
statutory entitlement except for the EIU cross
curricular element of the original National Curriculum
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
What does the Treasury say?
• rates of entrepreneurial activity in the UK remain
moderate by international standards
• an environment that encourages enterprise and
supports people who take opportunities and risks is a
crucial ingredient of productivity improvement
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
So they want to….
• improve support for small and new business
• promote a step change in the UK’s enterprise culture
• pretend the history of enterprise education started in
1997 with Gordon Brown as this started as a Treasury
initiative, not a DfES one
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Key publications
• A review of enterprise and the economy in education
(Davis Review – Feb 2002)
• Work – related learning for all at key stage 4 (QCA 2003)
• Creating an enterprise culture (HM Treasury - Jan 2004)
• Learning to be enterprising (Ofsted – Aug 2004)
• Developing enterprising young people (Ofsted –
November 2005)
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Davies review
• findings shaped the current focus of WRL and enterprise education
• was concerned with the employability of young people
• identified and defined 3 key components of employability (enterprise
capability, financial capability, economic and business
understanding)
• asked Ofsted to pose a new question to schools – ‘How well does
the school prepare young people for employability and work
(including their enterprise capability)?’
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Enterprise Education Outcomes
Enterprise Education supports the development of the
knowledge and understanding, skills and attributes that
young people require to thrive in their future working lives.
Enterprise Education is more concerned with skills than with
knowledge.
Work related learning is directly connected with
employability.
Enterprise education can be seen as the skills that support
employability within the framework of WRL or as a stand
alone area of learning in its own right.
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Moving the agenda forward
• Enterprise advisors
• Resources and enterprise pathfinders
• Business and Enterprise specialist status
• Enterprise in all schools?
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Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
S’EEN
• Local response – “Area 47”
• Single action plan
• Builds on existing good practice and networks
• Enterprising schools – not just schools that ‘do’
enterprise
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Autumn term:
• Leaders workshop
• Practitioners workshop
• Network schools meeting
• Consultancy work starts in schools
• Planning for ‘cluster workshops’
• First round of evaluation work undertaken
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Spring term:
• Cluster workshops
• Network schools meeting
• Consultancy work continues in schools
• Website material in place
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Summer term:
• Outreach work in cluster schools
• Network schools meeting
• Final round of evaluation
• Report on key issues for sustaining S’EEN
after funding stops
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Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
SSAT Learning Academy
• GTCE Teacher Learning Academy partnership
• Mechanism for staff to gain professional recognition
for work they undertake in connection with S’EEN and
enterprise development
• Four stage model accessible by all staff
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
SEF and Ofsted issues
•Key questions
Have we got agreed definitions of key concepts for enterprise?
Are they written down?
Do we have written aims and objectives for enterprise education?
Is enterprise in the school development plan?
How is the SMT involved?
Who is nominated to lead enterprise developments and are other enterprise
champions nominated to help?
How much time is granted for preparation?
Have we got a cash resource allocated specifically to enterprise?
How is enterprise communicated throughout the school?
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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
Why do anything different?
In times of change it is the learners who inherit the earth while the
learned are beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer
exists.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
He also wrote a book called ‘Future Shock’ the central theme of which is
about the impact on society of too much change in too short a period of
time.
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Schools’ Enterprise Education
Network (S’EEN)
www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk/seen
www.staffpart.org.uk/enterprise_network.htm
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