Enterprise and Employability Across Learning Award (Secondary)

This category recognises the schools that are helping children and young people develop the necessary skills for learning, skills for life and skills work, essential to learning and education under Curriculum for Excellence.  

The award will focus on the development of enterprise and employability skills and the significant role that employers play in partnership with schools to provide a context for learning.  

The award will also recognise schools and partner businesses that encourage young people to develop an awareness and an understanding of entrepreneurship, business and commerce and the importance of wealth creation to Scotland.

The award will recognise both the school and the partner employer.

If you can respond positively and in some detail to the following questions, we would welcome your nomination.

• How is your school ensuring young people have the opportunities to develop skills for learning, life and work?

• How are these skills being developed across all curriculum areas within the school, in interdisciplinary studies and in all other contexts and settings where young people are learning?

• How is your school ensuring young people and their families are aware of, and understand, the value of the skills they are developing?

• How is your school involving employers, parents and the wider community, in the development of enterprise and employability skills and attitudes in our young people?

• How have employer partnerships made a positive impact on the young people, staff (both in the school and in the partner employer) and the community as a whole?

• How have young people demonstrated their understanding and practical experience of running an enterprise? This should include reference to:

  • The process involved in setting up the enterprise.
  • The importance of understanding their role and that of others, within the enterprise.
  • The decision making process for deciding on the product or service innovation.
  • How the product or service was produced; financed; marketed; advertised; promoted; and sold.
  • The importance of profit and how this was distributed.
  • The administration and ICT used to support the enterprise.
  • The level and type of customer service provided.
  • The help or support provided from an employer in your local community and the impact this had on the young people.

• How have young people demonstrated their understanding, enthusiasm and excitement of entrepreneurship and wealth creation (for themselves and the Scottish economy), through participation in the enterprise?

Nominations for the 2012 Scottish Education Awards are now closed.