QinetiQ backs young enterprise (From Salisbury Journal)
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QinetiQ backs young enterprise
5:17pm Thursday 2nd February 2012 in Business
DEFENCE technology company QinetiQ, which has a base at Boscombe Down, is among nearly 200 companies and organisations backing a campaign for employability and entrepreneurship education to be part of the National Curriculum in schools.
They have signed up to the Young Enterprise Charter.
Many senior executives have said they find young recruits increasingly lack employability skills, such as a readiness to accept responsibility, business and customer awareness, problem solving and a positive attitude.
Young Enterprise gives 250,000 young people a year the opportunity to learn these skills and about the world of work from 5,000 volunteers from 3,500 businesses.
Ian Smith, chairman of Young Enterprise, said: “The response to the Young Enterprise Charter has been astonishing – the line-up of businesses, organisations and individuals who have backed our call for enterprise education to be made part of the National Curriculum cannot be ignored.
“We fully support high academic standards, but too heavy a focus on the purely academic approach runs the risk of downgrading other learning styles.”
