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Following the acclaimed OTCN 'Promoting Enterprise Education' report, a new website has been created
to offer advice and ideas to businesses considering working more closely
with their local schools. It is at
http://yourbusinesstheirfuture.com/
The Oxfordshire Town Chambers Network
secured funding from Awards for All (
www.awardsforall.org.uk) to carry out
a project called ‘Promoting Enterprise Education.’
Our report concludes that there is a positive and strengthening
partnership between business and education in the county, and that
businesspeople are getting more and more involved in supporting schools,
teachers and students to raise standards. It also finds that opportunities
for business to get involved with schools are increasing.
OTCN Director and report co-author Karyn Buck says: “Our ambition for this
report is that both business and schools will see which education-business
links are working well in Oxfordshire; that those already involved will
consider taking on more projects and that schools and business groups that
are not yet working together will find ways to do so.”
OTCN Director, John Naish, says the report also has a message for funding
organisations: “Many of the people involved here are volunteers; the
majority of town chambers and business groups are volunteer-led. Some of
the projects we feature have been made possible because those involved
have sought out funding. It would be great if organisations that have
funding for this kind of work in Oxfordshire could look at what is being
done and consider ways they might be proactive in supporting projects that
exist or help spread good practice.”
To download a copy of the report, please
click here.
If you have any comments on the report or would like to know more about business-education links in
your town in Oxfordshire, please email
