Education business partnership

We offer education business activities including work experience and challenging one day team activities. Our aim is to raise the achievement of young people, enrich the learning process and support economic development.

Employers

We work with local businesses to make our ideas happen. We are always looking for opportunities to work with local companies. There are many benefits for you and your company:

The chance to access young people's ideas
Raising your company's profile
Developing links with the local community
Motivating young people
Keeping up-to-date with the education developments
Staff development

Students

Research shows that students respond positively to people from the business world sharing their experiences. We promote a wide range of activities and initiatives to help students find out more about working life. They include work experience placements and one day workshops where students work in teams to develop new products or services.

The activities and initiatives:

Provide a practical understanding of the world of work
Develop confidence
Improve interpersonal and team working skills
Greatly enhance academic learning
Relate learning to employment
Help students to understand the qualities and skills employers require
Help students to make informed career and employment choices
Provide evidence for the students progress file

Work-related learning is a statutory part of the Key Stage 4 curriculum. It uses the context of work to develop knowledge, skills and understanding. There are nine strands of work related learning:

Recognise, develop and apply skills for enterprise and employability
Using work experience to extend understanding of work
Learn how businesses operate roles, rights and responsibilities
Develop awareness of local and national employment opportunities
Relating their own abilities to career intentions and make informed choices
Undertake tasks set in work contexts
Learn from contact with employers from different sectors
Experience of working practices and environments
Engage with ideas, challenges and applications from the business world

Teachers

We offer work placements for teachers. These placements give teachers the chance to spend time in a company or organisation relevant to their teaching subject: