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04 Jan 2012 - North West

Young Enterprise becomes chosen charity

Young Enterprise has become one of the chosen charities of the third Community Dotcom scheme to be created by Recycling Lives, Car Donation Network.
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03 Jan 2012 - Young Enterprise

How Young Enterprise stops education system rewarding conformity

Britain's education system is increasingly encouraging conformity through a growing emphasis on knowledge and testing, Young Enterprise argues in a key new report. At a time when it is vital we encourage the next generation to become more inventive and entrepreneurial - to ensure they have jobs in the wake of the economic slowdown - schools are under pressure to do the opposite. They are being forced to make young people reach for the ' the comfort of conformity' and search for the 'right' answer, which exists within a body of knowledge that someone else has already built, says the report in the latest edition of the influential Public Service Review.
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22 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Richard Branson tells The Times: 'entrepreneurship should definitely be taught in schools'

Richard Branson cranked up the pressure on Ministers last night as he insisted business lessons should not be dropped from the curriculum.

The Virgin boss told The Times newspaper: 'A lot more practical teaching should go on in schools and entrepreneurship definitely should be taught or at least be offered as an option.'

The tycoon was scathing about the education system. 'The British schooling system was created 100 years ago by French teachers and Latin teachers and it has never had a complete radical rethink and it needs a radical rethink.'
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22 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

UK accountants CIMA back campaign for enterprise education

The world's largest professional body of management accountants, CIMA, has thrown its weight behind the campaign for enterprise education in Britain's schools.

It has signed up to support the Young Enterprise Charter which is urging the Government not to remove the statutory right for young people to receive work related education at Key Stage 4, when they are between the crucial ages of 14-16.

CIMA's move is an enormous boost for the campaign because it has 183,000 members and students in 168 countries and they work at the heart of business, industry, commerce and not for profit organisations.
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20 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Young Enterprise will help change the lives of over 250,000 young people this year

* Up to 30,000 15-19 year olds will run their own real companies.

* More than 5,000 business volunteers from 3,500 firms will inspire them.

* Schools that become 'good and outstanding' tend to do Young Enterprise, says Ofsted .

* After 50 years in business we are the largest enterprise education charity.

* We have an international reputation as the Gold Standard others follow.
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14 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Young could emigrate unless they get more help to take - or make - a job Young Enterprise tells BBC Five Live

A 'brain drain' of talented young people abroad is 'definitely a risk' if young people are not helped to acquire vital employability and enterprise skills, Young Enterprise interim Chief Executive Catherine Marchant told BBC Radio Five LIve this morning.

Speaking on the influential 'Wake Up to Money' financial and business programme she said Young Enterprise was 'working hard' to persuade the Government to get enterprise education made part of the official National Curriculum.

As official figures showed that unemployment among 16-24 year olds has risen further above the one million mark she warned that 'young people are wondering if university is the right thing to do and more of them are looking at self-employment' as an option given the lack of opportunities in the wider economy.
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13 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Powerful MPs launch inquiry into boosting school enterprise lessons

Young Enterprise's campaign for more school business lessons has won a major victory. A powerful group of MPs has launched an official Parliamentary inquiry into whether enterprise education should be part of the National Curriculum. This is the key demand of our Young Enterprise Charter campaign which won the backing of 188 companies including 02, Bosch, Tata Steel, Citi, QinetiQ and Sage.
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10 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Cadbury's helped an astonishing 745,000 primary school kids learn about the world of work since 2001

More than 750,000 primary school students have taken part in a special Young Enterprise programme to help them understand the world of work in the past decade, new figures show. And the executives from the confectionary firm Cadbury's - who made the pioneering initiative possible - say they were inspired by the children to become better at business!
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09 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Hey, Company Programme Firms! Fancy exhibiting in Antwerp this February?

More than 100 Junior Achievement and Young Enterprise companies from across Europe will will be converging on the gorgeous heart of Antwerp in Belgium from 17-19 February 2012. They will be taking part in the amazing Flemish Trade Fair at the impressive Shopping Center Wijnegem in the port city. And an invitation has gone out to all British Company Programme entrepreneurs to join them in selling their wares and swapping ideas in one of the most glorious spots on the Continent.
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08 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Young Enterprise chief 'shocked' at Daily Telegraph exam cheating claims

Following the claims in today's Daily Telegraph Catherine Marchant, Interim Chief Executive at Young Enterprise said:

'I am shocked by the allegations that some schools have been apparently lured by exam boards into cheating to help students pass. I strongly agree with the respected educationalist Professor Mick Waters who has urged schools to adopt Young Enterprise as a healthy way to compete.

'In the wake of this scandal Young Enterprise hopes Education Secretary Michael Gove's inquiry will consider whether the excessively narrow focus on academic facts and exams currently pursued by the Coalition Government risks failure.

'With more than 1 million young unemployed, evidence is mounting that this approach is not providing young people with the employability skills they need.

'These skills are: the teamwork, initiative, global thinking and businesslike behaviour that employers tell us they look for when hiring recruits.'
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08 Dec 2011 - Northern Ireland

Young Enterprise Students Learn to Earn with Bank of Ireland

New financial literacy programme launched
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07 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Young Enterprise 'Handy Mat' inventors now pitching to supply Superdrug

Seven teenagers who won amazing sales with the innovative 'Handy Mat' are now pitching to High Street retailers Superdrug.

The group, who call themselves Cliche, from Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School won the Telegraph Young Enterprise New Media Award 2011 for a short video advertising the device.

The Handy Mat helps people to paint their nails, while helping to prevent the varnish going all over the surface they use. The Telegraph has published a new online interview with the team in an effort to encourage contestants in the Young Enterprise Company Programme to enter this year's new media competition.
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05 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Young Enterprise star wins work experience with The Apprentice's Karren Brady

A brilliant 16 year old Young Enterprise finalist has landed a chance to work with 'The Apprentice' star Karren Brady. Alistair Boyd's idea for a travel pack to keep children occupied on boring holiday flights so impressed the West Ham Football Club boss she has offered him work experience.
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01 Dec 2011 - Young Enterprise

Cornwall's leaders invest 10,000 pounds in future of local students

Cornwall Council Members have collectively pledged just over 10,000 pounds to support Young Enterprise. The investment will directly benefit thousands of young people in Cornwall who will learn new enterprise skills and get first hand experience of running their own small business whilst at school. Katie Vage, Manager for Young Enterprise in Cornwall said, 'In the current economic climate we believe that these programmes and activities are needed now more than ever.'
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30 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise

Mighty Federation of Small Businesses joins Young Enterprise in campaigning for boost to enterprise education

The powerful 200,000-member Federation of Small Businesses has thrown its weight behind the campaign for more enterprise education.

30 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise

Here's a simple new way to demand enterprise education on the National Curriculum

We have made it even easier to join the push for business lessons on the formal school agenda. As part of our Real-Life Entrepreneurs campaign with the mighty Federation of Small Businesses we have created a template letter. 

You just sign it and send off to your local Member of Parliament.

28 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise

Labour's Business think tank calls for expansion of Young Enterprise

A new pamphlet co-written by Alex Smith, a former senior member of Ed Miliband’s leadership election campaign, proposes a much bigger role in the British economy for Young Enterprise.

Called ‘Labour’s Business,’ the document advocates adopting a number of eye-catching new ideas to support small firms as part of a wider economic strategy for the party. The pamphlet argues that enterprise is not just good for the economy; it is good for society.

It urges Labour to do more to support those small businesses, sole traders and young people entering a challenging jobs market. A key move, it suggests should be to ‘build a National Young Enterprise Programme.’

25 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise

The Apprentice star Nick Hewer praises Young Enterprise for boosting UK business

Nick Hewer, best known for his role as Lord Alan Sugar's right-hand man On BBC 1s 'The Apprentice,' has delivered a powerful endorsement of Young Enterprise. The 67 year-old public relations guru visited the Isle of Man to talk to young business brains getting the chance to run their own companies and experience first-hand the challenges this involves. As he left he went onto the Twitter network to send the message: 'Leaving the Isle of Man after 24 hours and 3 speeches in support of Young Achievement/Young Enterprise, whose aims chime with The Apprentice.'
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24 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise

Demand enterprise education - write to your MP now!

Supporters of Young Enterprise and the powerful 200,000-member Federation of Small Businesses have launched a massive letter-writing campaign. Politicians from all parties are receiving postcards urging them to back an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for more enterprise education. Young Enterprise has created the postcard featuring Adam Soliman, a graduate of our Start-up programme, whose tea company Charbrew has just begun exporting after three years in business.

23 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise

Global chemicals giant Johnson Matthey teams up with Young Enterprise

Multinational chemicals manufacturer Johnson Matthey is teaming up with Young Enterprise to bring classroom science to life for pupils. The 200-year-old firm which has operations in over 30 countries and employs around 9,700 people is particularly keen to make a difference in Lancashire where it has a key plant.