16 May 2012 - Young Enterprise
Caroline Braun Young Enterprise business advisor to carry Olympic Torch
A brilliant business advisor who is part of a team that helps thousands of young people every year has won the incredible honour of carrying the Olympic torch.
Caroline Braun, originally from Balham, South London, will take charge of the hugely symbolic flame on 26 May and carry it through Bryncetin, South Wales.
On a blog she wrote for the official 2012 Olympic site, she spoke of her work with Britain's largest enterprise education charity - and her heartfelt words convinced the organisers she was a worthy role model for the nation.
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28 Jul 2011 - Young Enterprise
Employees need to change their attitude - but so does business
As dole queues rise across the UK, employers are complaining that they can't find people willing and able to work. It is a familiar refrain. The favoured term this time around is "employability," writes Ian.
In a hard-hitting piece he levels criticism both at many senior business people and society as a whole for ‘moaning’ about the poor ‘attitude’ of British workers while refusing to do anything to help improve the supply of work-ready young people.
His article has provoked a storm of comment on the Telegraph website from readers debating who is responsible for the failure of so many recruits to acquire the skills needed to be successful at work and what can be done about it.
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30 Jul 2011 - Young Enterprise
Young Enterprise is seeking to recruit a Press Officer
Press Officer
London
In the range £24,276 to £32,844 pa
Young Enterprise is a charity that inspires young people aged 4 – 25 years old with the confidence, ability and ambition to succeed.
The successful candidate will support the delivery of Young Enterprise’s internal and external national marketing and communications strategy to enable the organisation to be seen as pre-eminent in its field and a leader in multi-media communications.
In addition, as Press Officer you will support Young Enterprise staff in promoting and communicating Young Enterprise’s work effectively to our target audiences.
To apply for this role as Press Officer
http://www.prweekjobs.co.uk/job/340202/press-officer/
Interviews for this post will be on Friday 18 Nov in London
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26 Aug 2011 - Young Enterprise
Employees need a 'can-do' attitude - but so do businesses.
Young Enterprise Chairman Ian Smith writes for The Daily Telegraph.
As dole queues rise across the UK, employers are complaining that they can't find people willing and able to work. It is a familiar refrain. The favoured term this time around is "employability," writes Ian.
In a hard-hitting piece he levels criticism both at many senior business people and society as a whole for ‘moaning’ about the poor ‘attitude’ of British workers while refusing to do anything to help improve the supply of work-ready young people.
His article has provoked a storm of comment on the Telegraph website from readers debating who is responsible for the failure of so many recruits to acquire the skills needed to be successful at work and what can be done about it.
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05 Oct 2011 - Yorkshire & Humber
Who wants to be an #ntrepreneur?
The 2011/12 Apprentice-style fundraiser is underway in the Humber sub-region
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10 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise
Jobs blackspot kids trade their way to work skills with Young Enterprise
A pioneering teenage business project has delivered a huge boost to the employment chances of almost 5,000 youngsters in a notorious jobs blackspot.
Students at schools in North West of England, whose region was in the news last week due to high rates of young people not in education, work or training, took part in a unique Young Enterprise scheme.
They young people were enabled to measure their 'employability' skill levels before and after taking part in the programmes - and they
recorded increases of up to 20% in a range of areas that will help them get a job.
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15 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise
British Land helps inner city students blast off to success
The huge UK property firm, British Land, has delivered a major boost to young people from a deprived area of London in partnership with Young Enterprise.
Managers from the company, which is one of the Top 100 listed the Stock Exchange, gave them expert help in honing their job and university interview skills.
Their initiative was launched at the South Camden Community School where 80 per cent of students speak English as a second language and more than half qualify for free school meals, a crucial measure of disadvantage.
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21 Nov 2011 - Young Enterprise
Actress Wendy Craig brings star power to Young Enterprise Trade Fair
TV personality Wendy Craig has thrown her star power behind Young Enterprise as she picked out the winning raffle tickets at the Cookham Christmas Fayre.
Among the retailers selling their wares were sixth formers from Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow, who have been taking part in a Young Enterprise scheme.
It is just one of the hundreds of Young Enterprise trade fairs taking place across the country - and Christmas shoppers who are stumped about what presents to buy should seek them out, just like Wendy, the star of the sitcom Butterflies which ran on BBC 2 in the 1980s.
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10 Jan 2012 - Young Enterprise
Huge audience has viewed stories about Young Enterprise in the popular new Knowledge Box feature
It's only a month old, but the new Knowledge Box feature has already received thousands of viewers. New stories are being added all the time.
What is the Knowledge Box? It's a great new feature of the Young Enterprise website.. Just look for the little picture of Albert Einstein and click there....the box will open up to reveal a cornucopia of information about the people and companies who have taken part in the work of Britain's largest enterprise education charity.
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13 Jan 2012 - Young Enterprise
GO TO THE KNOWLEDGE BOX! Schoolchildren launched onto the international markets? Surely not!
But it's true!
Read our 'Kids in Business' feature and 62 other fascinating stories about Young Enterprise in our new Knowledge Box. Click on the picture of Albert Einstein.
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24 Jan 2012 - Young Enterprise
Send Michael Gove a Tweet
Parliament's Education Committee wants to know: What one education policy question do you think it should ask Michael Gove? To submit a question via Twitter, add the hash tag #AskGove to your tweet by 11 am on Friday, 27 January.
How about: #AskGove Why are you ending work related education for 14-16s when 1 million young are jobless?
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27 Jan 2012 - Young Enterprise
Become a global business chief while at school
International trading, managing shares and fiercely chasing profit are, believe it or not, all activities for some UK schoolchildren. But the majority are emerging from the cosy arms of education without even the business or financial basics.
Young Enterprise is a business and enterprise education charity that has been making real-life business experience a reality for the younger generation. And more than that, it has been campaigning for the Coalition Government to make business and entrepreneurship education compulsory.
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30 Jan 2012 - Young Enterprise
Excitement mounts ahead of the HSBC Young Enterprise Innovation Awards 2012
More than 2,000 real companies set up and run by teenagers are competing for Britain's most prestigious award for young entrepreneurs.
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03 Feb 2012 - Young Enterprise
More work-related education, not less say Derby and Notts business leaders
The President of one of the UK's biggest business support organisations has written to Business Secretary Vince Cable and Education Secretary Michael Gove to back Young Enterprise's Charter Campaign.
They are asking for changes to the way that schools and colleges prepare their pupils and students for the world of work.
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06 Feb 2012 - Young Enterprise
Young Enterprise helps beat youth jobless scourge
Young Enterprise helps to reduce youth unemployment, new research suggests.
The more young people come into contact with employers while they are at school, the less likely they are to go on to be unemployed, it says.
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16 Feb 2012 - Young Enterprise
Dragon and friends urge firms to back Young Enterprise
Theo Paphetis of Ryman former M&S Supremo Stuart Rose and Cisco's Phil Smith urge Britain's firms to do more to nurture young business talent.
Business leaders are urging graduates and young people to become more enterprising and commercially aware in order to find the jobs they want and help to boost business.
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27 Feb 2012 - Young Enterprise
What your firm will get out of working with Young Enterprise
I am often asked: how would my company benefit from taking part in Young Enterprise? (writes Catherine Marchant)
Let me answer that by asking you some questions...
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05 Mar 2012 - Young Enterprise
Beating youth unemployment starts in school, says Europe's Young Enterprise chief
The skills that young people lack most are the ones they need to get a job, writes Caroline JennerCEO, Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise Europe.
More than five and half million young people in Europe are unemployed and almost a quarter of Europe's youth are at risk of falling into poverty.
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08 Mar 2012 - Young Enterprise
Students battle it out in European ExxonMobil and Young Enterprise eco-competition
Young people from Southampton and Leatherhead secondary schools will have their maths, science and technology skills tested to the limit in a European-wide contest launched by ExxonMobil and Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise Europe.
Teams of students from seven schools will join a mega-battle of the brains as they compete to solve a tough energy efficiency challenge at the Fawley Refinery site on Wednesday 14 March.
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21 Mar 2012 - Young Enterprise
Read how Richard Branson boosted Young Enterprise in our latest StartSomething magazine
Virgin tycoon Richard Branson catapaulted Young Enterprise ahead in the social media stakes - by tweeting about us to his 1.8 million followers.
The story of how he intervened on the social media network Twitter to support the Young Enterprise campaign in favour of more practical education in schools is the lead item in the latest edition of our magazine - which you can read by clicking on on the window to your left.
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30 Mar 2012 - Young Enterprise
Surbiton's Fortis wins second in pan-European Young Enterprise contest against 33 countries!
A mood enhancing aromatherapy pillow clinched a prestigious 2nd place at the Zurich Young Enterprise trade fair for Surbiton's Fortis team.
Small, replaceable cartridges are used to release a range of mood enhancing fragrances.
The team's victory was extraordinary given that there were 90 teams from 33 countries present at the event in Switzerland.
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