U-Explore - supporting enterprise
07/04/10
Supporting and delivering the 'Quality standards for Enterprise Education'
U-Explore transforms enterprise education from a five day stand alone experience into an engaging, continuing development of transferable employability skills. Created in conjunction with the national enterprise campaign Make Your Mark, it provides a complete solution for delivering an exciting enterprise education.
Employer engagement
A key challenge to delivering effective enterprise education in schools is access to industry specialists. U-Explore takes students inside the workplace and allows them to interact with employees and entrepreneurs so they can learn directly from their experiences.
It features award winning entrepreneurs who deliver exciting video challenges based on real problems they face in their businesses.
"Effective enterprise education (should make) use of outside expertise…(with) businesses encouraged to set students a 'real' issue to investigate…to develop scenarios of real business problems."
Structured activities
All enterprise challenges featured on U-Explore have been specially structured to meet the enterprise framework and have been developed with a leading awarding body to ensure that you are meeting all the requirements of the statutory framework. Each challenge also incorporates milestone stages.
"Enterprise education is the …nurturing of [and] the development of specific enterprise skills…in structured activities which provide opportunities for students to develop skills.”
Assess progression
A key feature is the online enterprise log which enables students to record their enterprise activity against the framework and assess their own progression. The enterprise log encourages self-evaluation through functions such as an interactive star rating system and includes target setting for reflective learning and progression.
This provides a range of excellent opportunities to develop the PLTS/AfL framework within your teaching and learning. Students collect their work in an e-portfolio which provides anywhere, anytime access and can be printed for Ofsted evidence.
"Good practice is…the effective assessment and monitoring of student progress (by having) established log books for students to record their experience of enterprise focused on a few key outcomes (with) students providing evidence of achieving them."
Challenge selection
Students are encouraged to develop a 'can do' approach to their work. Framework related challenges offer a selection of financial, profit orientated, social and fund-raising enterprise learning experiences.
U-Explore transforms enterprise education from a five day stand alone experience into an engaging, continuing development of transferable employability skills. Created in conjunction with the national enterprise campaign Make Your Mark, it provides a complete solution for delivering an exciting enterprise education.
Employer engagement
A key challenge to delivering effective enterprise education in schools is access to industry specialists. U-Explore takes students inside the workplace and allows them to interact with employees and entrepreneurs so they can learn directly from their experiences.
It features award winning entrepreneurs who deliver exciting video challenges based on real problems they face in their businesses.
"Effective enterprise education (should make) use of outside expertise…(with) businesses encouraged to set students a 'real' issue to investigate…to develop scenarios of real business problems."
Structured activities
All enterprise challenges featured on U-Explore have been specially structured to meet the enterprise framework and have been developed with a leading awarding body to ensure that you are meeting all the requirements of the statutory framework. Each challenge also incorporates milestone stages.
"Enterprise education is the …nurturing of [and] the development of specific enterprise skills…in structured activities which provide opportunities for students to develop skills.”
Assess progression
A key feature is the online enterprise log which enables students to record their enterprise activity against the framework and assess their own progression. The enterprise log encourages self-evaluation through functions such as an interactive star rating system and includes target setting for reflective learning and progression.
This provides a range of excellent opportunities to develop the PLTS/AfL framework within your teaching and learning. Students collect their work in an e-portfolio which provides anywhere, anytime access and can be printed for Ofsted evidence.
"Good practice is…the effective assessment and monitoring of student progress (by having) established log books for students to record their experience of enterprise focused on a few key outcomes (with) students providing evidence of achieving them."
Challenge selection
Students are encouraged to develop a 'can do' approach to their work. Framework related challenges offer a selection of financial, profit orientated, social and fund-raising enterprise learning experiences.
