FE Education Case Studies

On 16th June 2010 a celebration event took place at Weetwood Hall Leeds, to showcase and highlight examples of FE enterprise education.

The event was well attended with representatives from 20 colleges in the region.

YPEF have invested in enterprise in further education as this is vital to enable young people to consider self-employment as a viable career option and gain both the life skills and experience which employers currently demand.

The event was held on Friday 20 November, the last day of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009, led by Enterprise UK.

11 December 2009 saw a packed Mart Theatre full of 250 schools and college students ready to meet ‘The Alchemist’! 

2009 was another successful year for the Barnsley Young Apprenticeship programme, with tremendous achievement rates for the four programmes. This has resulted in the progression of 97% of our Cohort 4 apprentices (2009 leavers) into further education, training or employment.

Kevin Parkin, Managing Director at DavyMarkham thanked 50 business leaders for giving their backing to a unique, locally developed programme, aimed at encouraging and supporting young people access job opportunities in manufacturing and engineering, at the launch of ‘work-wise’ at The Cutlers Hall on Friday 30th April.

On Friday 26th March 2010 40 Year 8 students from Malet Lambert School Language College took part in the Enterprise 2012 Get Set Olympic Challenge.

Applied learning helps to make the Diploma a new and engaging choice for learners. Diploma learners benefit from learning by doing – in situations that reflect the working world.

Hull Youth Enterprise Partnership (HYEP) was set up to contribute to Hull’s target of creating 1,200 new businesses over the 15 years to 2016, and to encourage young people to become more enterprising