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Enterprise Education
Enterprise education is defined as ‘enterprise capability’, supported by ‘financial capability’ and ‘economic and business understanding’.
Enterprise capability is the ability to:
• handle uncertainty and respond positively to change;
• to create and implement new ideas and ways of doing things, and
• to make reasonable risk/reward assessments and act upon them in one’s personal and working life. Enterprise capability is a key output of workrelated learning programmes – to be ‘enterprising’ means being creative and innovative, taking risks and managing them, and having a ‘can-do’ attitude and the drive to make ideas happen.
Financial capability is the ability to manage one’s own finances and to become a questioning and informed consumer of financial services.
Economic and Business understanding is the ability to understand the business context and make informed choices between alternative uses of scarce resources.
Enterprise Process
Effective enterprise learning takes place in a school, college, community or business setting, where young people are given autonomy to tackle relevant problems or issues that involve an element of risk and uncertainty about final outcomes, as well as reward for resolving them successfully. They are expected to take personal responsibility for their own actions through an ‘enterprise process’ based on the following four-stages:
• Stage 1: Tackling a problem or need Involves generating ideas through discussion to reach a common understanding of what is required to resolve the problem or meet the need.
• Stage 2: Planning the project or activity Involves breaking down tasks, organising resources, deploying team members and allocating responsibilities.
• Stage 3: Implementing the plan Involves solving problems and monitoring progress.
• Stage 4: Evaluating the processes Involves reviewing activities and final outcomes, reflecting on lessons learned and assessing the skills, attitudes, qualities and understanding acquired.
Enterprise is part of work-related learning – it is also a key output from it.
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