Posted in career education, education, enterprise, Enterprise References, entreprenurial, Help Corner, Resources and Suppliers, Web Sites on July 29, 2009| 1 Comment »
Forgot about this great site that has information not only applicable to business but to education as well. Gardner, Bloom, Maslow, innovation, enterprise, self evaluation, self development etc it is all in here – don’t take offence at the name Business Balls.
Posted in education, Enterprise References, International, Schools Enterprise on July 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
To often we are asked ” well how do you assess enterprise ?” Several ideas have been suggested and one such paper came from NFER in England called Assessing Enterprise Capabilities. This document offers guidance for schools on how to assess enterprise capability in order to support enterprise education. It is based on the findings from researchcarried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) for theDCSF (working with QCA, SSAT and Ofsted).
Posted in Schools Enterprise on July 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »
A large collection of video clips hosted on the Learning and Teaching Scotland web site that show what is happening with enterprise in schools in Scotland.
Scroll down the left hand side to view enterprise clips
Several new Scottish entrepreneurs talking about their business idea. This is an unique way of getting vidoes into a format that is easily accessable to many people and in a file format that is easy to download for free -)
Posted in International on July 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »
New Zealand has been doing some very good sharing of ideas in enterprise on their web site Education for Enterprise and some useful assessment ideas – one adapted from Scotland – hey we share in enterprise all the time ” why reinvent the wheel ” It gives an insight into how they view enterprise and at present I am waiting to read their report on how enterprise has developed over the past few years – I think it will make interesting reading.
We in Scotland produced our three year report Determined to Succeed – Three Years On a little while back – makes good reading.
Posted in International, Make and Take, Resources and Suppliers on July 28, 2009| 1 Comment »
Ruuning short of ideas for a new business ? Company in England Abel Magnets doing A4 gloss / matt magnetic paper which can be put through an ink jet printer. They have a sample packs for sale at reasonable prices.
Ideas include – your own fridge magnets, business cards, a remember/ do not forget sign for the fridge , photo frames, reading words, Scottish words, famous quotes, ILU , Valentines ideas, peronal photographs etc. Just go on a visit up your local high street and see what is on offer.
Use a software package that produces multiple copies of a single business cards design and that allows importing of images and just put in the magnetic paper instead of card – then cut to suit. I did use The Print Shop but it is now off the market – maybe somebody has some tried and tested software that does exactly that ?
Posted in career education on July 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Was at meeting today with company that are really linking employer areas with education. Have a look at Careersinfo they are doing some great work in England and are now looking at the Scottish education system. They also have another site – Careers Box, which has over 300 jobs explained
Posted in Enterprise References on July 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
In recent Times story Keir Bloomer highlighted the need for higher order thinking skills to be one of the main aims within the new Curriculum for Excellence. If you look at the work that is being developed through enterprising approaches and Determined to Succeed many of the higher order skills that he is talking about are there to be seen. The recent Scottish Awards also showcased schools that were developing this area in their pupils. Have a look at the sharing practice enterprise case studies on the LTS web site.
Posted in Enterprise References, Help Corner, International, Resources and Suppliers, Schools Enterprise, Web Sites on July 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Just attended a CPD session in LTS run by Con Morris and the challenge was to start my own blog – so here it is – any comments / advice would be appreciated. The site will be developed over the next month and hopefully will be a portal for us all to share ideas.
As the saying goes – Plant a seed , Cultivate an idea, Reap a reward
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