Welcome to the Make Your Mark’s Enterprise Insights where only the most interesting enterprise developments and stories are delivered to you fortnightly.
Unlocking enterprise potential
Embedding entrepreneurship in education requires a ‘fundamental rethinking of educational systems’, a report by the World Economic Forum argues. The report suggests communities should build an ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’, where multiple stakeholders, including businesses, schools and other institutions, work together to develop entrepreneurial attitudes, skills and behaviours in young people.
Independent Review of the proposal to make Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education statutory (Sir Alistair MacDonald – pdf: 958KB)
Enterprise education will become a statutory part of both primary and secondary education under recommendations made by Sir Alistair MacDonald and accepted by Schools Minister Ed Balls. Forming part of a new core of personal, social, health and economic education requirements, children from the age of 5 will take part in enterprise activities from September 2011.
Creating enterprising places
Why Bother? (Make Your Mark – pdf: 4.5MB)
Make Your Mark highlights the successes of its activities to date – including the flagship Enterprise Week (now called Global Entrepreneurship Week!), described by Gordon Brown as a ‘shining example of Britain leading the world in enterprise and innovation’. With over 2 million people taking part in enterprise events in the UK since 2004, a culture of entrepreneurship is emerging in the UK and the recession is highlighting just how important the work of the campaign is to the UK’s future.
In the media
The first European SME Week (6 – 14 May 2009) is fully underway, with events organized across the UK.
Prominent entrepreneurs and politicians, including Alistair Darling and Michael Dell, addressed 2,500 business leaders at the Institute of Directors' Annual Convention - videos of the speeches are available online.
A collection of essays entitled ‘After the Crunch’ (pdf: 4MB), featuring pieces by Will Hutton and Charles Leadbeater as well as forty others, looks at how the creative industries will develop in the future.
Real-world education and skills
Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum: Final Report (Sir Jim Rose – pdf: 3.2MB)
The final report from Sir Jim Rose’s Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum, in keeping with the Draft Report published last December, recommends that primary education should be divided into six learning areas – with enterprise falling into ‘understanding physical development, health and wellbeing’. The report, released in conjunction with the MacDonald Review, also recommends greater use of ICT in primary schools, as well as cross-curricular methods of teaching. Make Your Mark’s initial response and response to the Draft Report by the Review are available on our website.
Addressing and changing the attitudes and aspirations of teenagers from poor backgrounds may have large pay-offs in increasing educational attainment - improving behaviour and closing socio-economic gaps - results from a major longitudinal study of young people suggest. The research, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, on behalf of DCSF, also identifies parental education, parental attitudes and behaviours, material resources in the home, and changes in attitudes between 14 and 16, as other factors that significantly affect young peoples’ outcomes.
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