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DETERMINED TO SUCCEED: A Review of Enterprise in Education
2. SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS
OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
1. Every pupil from P1 through to S6 must have an entitlement to enterprise activities on an annual basis and, in addition, pupils in S5 and S6 should have an entitlement to case studies based on local or Scottish businesses.
2. All pupils over the age of 14 must have an opportunity for work-based vocational learning linked to accompanying relevant qualifications. This will require a major commitment from Scotland's employers, working closely with local authorities and secondary schools.
3. All local authorities must design and implement a communications strategy for raising the awareness and commitment of parents and carers to Enterprise in Education.
THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY'S COMMITMENT
4. The Federation of Small Businesses, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, the Entrepreneurial Exchange, the CBI and other business organisations must each identify at least one individual champion for Enterprise in Education. These champions and their organisations must work together in partnership, with the Ministerial Strategic Forum ( Recommendation 17), to improve the extent and the quality of business involvement in Enterprise in Education at national level.
5. Building on what already exists, the Scottish Executive with partnership funding from the business community, must provide financial resources for appropriate experiential entrepreneurial activities in all primary, secondary and special schools.
6. The Scottish Executive, with partnership funding and support from the business community and others, must provide financial resources for the appointment of an enterprise development officer in every school cluster in Scotland to develop and implement plans for Enterprise in Education.
7. Strategic partnerships, which take account of existing good practice, must be established between local authorities and Careers Scotland to engage with local businesses and organisations to improve the provision of Enterprise in Education and to ensure the business community is more fully involved.
8. There must be a major expansion in the involvement of businesses in our schools. All primary, secondary and special schools must develop partnership agreements with local businesses and other appropriate organisations. A target should be set that within every school cluster there must be no less than five such partnership agreements by 2006. This would represent a target of 2,000 such agreements across Scotland.
9. The Scottish Executive in association with business and other partners must sponsor an annual National Award scheme that recognises and promotes excellence in Enterprise in Education, and builds on current award schemes.
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
10. Learning and Teaching Scotland must review and improve all existing national guidance and support materials on "Education for Work" in order to reflect more clearly the importance of Enterprise in Education, to include enterprise and entrepreneurship.
11. Learning and Teaching Scotland must review and improve existing guidance and support materials for work experience.
12. The Scottish Executive must commission research into part-time work undertaken by young people while still at school.
13. Careers Scotland and Learning and Teaching Scotland must work in partnership to develop resources and establish ways of promoting and sharing good practice in Enterprise in Education.
14. The Scottish Qualifications Authority, Learning and Teaching Scotland and business organisations, working in partnership, must review and improve the provision of Enterprise in Education within the framework of National Qualifications.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS
15. Enterprise in Education must be included in Initial Teacher Education programmes.
16. As part of their Continuing Professional Development (CPD), all teachers must have the opportunity to participate in training and development in Enterprise in Education, which must include enterprise experiences at least once every two years.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
17. A Ministerially led Strategic Forum must be established and meet twice yearly to ensure the implementation of all the recommendations in this Report, with appropriate target dates.
18. The Scottish Executive must include, within the measures and indicators underpinning the National Priorities for education, appropriate indicators relating to the outcomes of Enterprise in Education.
19. All local authorities in their Education Improvement Plans and schools in their School Development Plans must make clear how they will implement the recommendations in this Report and develop Enterprise in Education in the context of the current National Priorities for education.
20. HMIE working with other key agencies must produce a set of Quality Indicators for Enterprise in Education for use in school inspections, taking close account of the National Priorities for education indicators referred to in Recommendation 18.
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