COUNTEC EBP is the Education Business Partnership for Milton Keynes, serving schools and MK College with a range of work experience and work-related learning activities to help young people develop employability and enterprise skills.   Our mission is to engage employers in education.  We deliver a wide range of activities with young people and schools across Milton Keynes:

All our activities are planned to develop positive attitude.  All our business partners are carefully selected, briefed and monitored.  Our quality assurance comes from the National EBP Network accreditation.

• Work Awareness – guests from world of work visit classroom to answer student questions about their experience of work
• Work Preparation – business ambassadors support school assemblies and workshops, preparing students for Work Experience, and employers mentor student pairs in ‘Equal Choices’ work shadowing
• Work Experience - employers supervise student work placements, usually for 10 days
• Enterprise Challenges – business ambassadors lead student group sessions to develop enterprise skills
• Post-16 Options – employers support apprenticeships, Diplomas, A-levels and other further education qualifications with placements and curriculum enrichment activities; also part-time work.
• Reading & Number Partners – mentors from world of work visit primary schools as mentors to read or play number games with children in their lunch hour
• Alternative Education – employers provide full range of employability activities and support for students in Personalised Education Centre; iPEC

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