What is 'Enterprise Education'?

Enterprise Education is about helping young people develop ...

• enterprise capability
• financial capability
• economic and business understanding

Enterprise capability is the ability to ...

• handle uncertainty and respond positively to change
• create and implement new ideas and ways of doing things
• make reasonable risk/reward assessments
• act on these in one’s personal and working life

It is also about innovation, creativity, risk management, having a can-do approach and the drive to make ideas happen.

At the start of the project, all the students were gathered together for a presentation about the meaning of enterprise and the reasons for undertaking enterprise activities in schools. Thereafter, the students worked in six teaching groups comprising 30 students, assuming roles and responsibilities to ensure the design and manufacture of saleable gifts for the school's Christmas Fair.