http://www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk/677/national-enterprise-academy Inspiration, ideas and opportunities for your business! Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:40:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk/677/national-enterprise-academy#comment-13286 Karen Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:06:37 +0000 http://www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk/677/national-enterprise-academy#comment-13286 Hooray! at last someone cares. I have been teaching enterprise skills as an independent organisation in schools for over 10 years and in the last two years without any funding whatsoever. Most of the Local Authority funding is being used on yet more expensive consultants telling us what we already know. Good Head teachers are using up to 20% of their enterprise money from the standards funding on enterprising their students, the others pretend they have no money and built bike sheds. I am at the grass roots and get fed up with the hugely bureaucratic system. The employers want these skills and the teachers want us to teach them, the money is obviously somewhere but does anyone who can actually use it know where it is or how to access it. Event the LSC portal is so complicated that small dedicated delivery organisations simply have no resources to fill them in. Hooray! at last someone cares. I have been teaching enterprise skills as an independent organisation in schools for over 10 years and in the last two years without any funding whatsoever. Most of the Local Authority funding is being used on yet more expensive consultants telling us what we already know. Good Head teachers are using up to 20% of their enterprise money from the standards funding on enterprising their students, the others pretend they have no money and built bike sheds. I am at the grass roots and get fed up with the hugely bureaucratic system. The employers want these skills and the teachers want us to teach them, the money is obviously somewhere but does anyone who can actually use it know where it is or how to access it. Event the LSC portal is so complicated that small dedicated delivery organisations simply have no resources to fill them in.

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