Leadership & Support - Business links
This section covers the area of engaging with the business world, both for those seeking to create partnerships to support their teaching or work-related learning activities and also by providing background research.
The Education Business Partnership Organisations network brings together educationalists and employers to focus on creating real opportunities for young learners to develop the skills they need for adult life. Use the link on the right to find your local EBPO.
The vision of the Education and Employers Task Force is to ensure that every school and college has an effective partnership with employers to provide its young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential and so to secure the UK's future prosperity . As a first step towards building a comprehensive library of research reports that relate to employer engagement in education, the Taskforce has now made 20 of the most important recent reports available on its website, each with a 250-word summary. The reports are categorised according to their main focus (children/young people; schools/colleges; employers/employees, and the library will be added to over time to include more past reports as well as the newest publications. Follow the link to access the library.
Use your Expertise is a pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group) scheme which brings the expertise of people in the financial services world into the classroom. Volunteers have been able to assist teachers in delivering personal finance education in a range of subjects, including mathematics and business studies, by contributing to lesson plans and acting as a source of information for both teachers and students. Register with the site and then search the list of volunteers in your local area.
