Riddhi
Spot on. Peter Jones' comments seem very stragne considering his involvement with Enterprise UK as Chair. The problem with enterprise, and this is especially the case with enterprise education, is that it is quite intangible. You can measure business start-up rates, or attitudes towards entrepreneurship or enterprise skills', but it is very difficult to really see the impact. Students will be inspired or have increased levels of ambition, belief, confidence etc. But in the Boardroom it is hard to show the real-life effects of this, partly because of the variety of places young-people are being influenced from, and also because effects may not be seen for years until students leave school and start utilizing their enterprise skills. Whether enterprise education represents good value for money is hard to say, but Enterprise UK had an annual budget of a35m (only a portion of which went on education), compare this to other bodies in education such as Edge or BECTA and it is tiny.What I can tell you is that teachers and students alike can't get enough of enterprise initiatives, if PJ doesn't want to be involved then I'm sure someone out there will. They might also be able to convey the idea that enterprise is about more than finance and business, an idea that seems to have completely passed PJ by.
Riddhi Spot on. Peter Jones' comments seem very stragne considering his involvement with Enterprise UK as Chair. The problem with enterprise, and this is especially the case with enterprise education, is that it is quite intangible. You can measure business start-up rates, or attitudes towards entrepreneurship or enterprise skills', but it is very difficult to really see the impact. Students will be inspired or have increased levels of ambition, belief, confidence etc. But in the Boardroom it is hard to show the real-life effects of this, partly because of the variety of places young-people are being influenced from, and also because effects may not be seen for years until students leave school and start utilizing their enterprise skills. Whether enterprise education represents good value for money is hard to say, but Enterprise UK had an annual budget of a35m (only a portion of which went on education), compare this to other bodies in education such as Edge or BECTA and it is tiny.What I can tell you is that teachers and students alike can't get enough of enterprise initiatives, if PJ doesn't want to be involved then I'm sure someone out there will. They might also be able to convey the idea that enterprise is about more than finance and business, an idea that seems to have completely passed PJ by.