Enterprising Careers offers research and evaluation services to a range of organisations. While organisations will already have a commitment to quality through their own internal quality assurance processes, there is increasingly a role for an external, impartial evaluation to compliment the internal one. We include a number of examples below, but it is important to realise that these services can be negotiated and customised to meet the needs of individual oganisations.
Many businesses have committed time and resources to working with schools, and current government initiatives seek to encourage this.
- What is the impact of this investment?
- ... on the business and its staff; on the school and its young people
- ... on the community in general.
- How might the involvement of a business in education be maximised?
Enterprising Careers can provide an evaluation with focused recommendations, the work to be undertaken by staff who are experienced in working with businesses which interface with education.
Enterprising Careers staff have a strong profile in research and evaluation. We are able to provide a service at various levels, from school departments to policy makers. Examples might include;
- evaluation of policies
- evaluation of the delivery of Enterprise in Education through the curriculum
- tracking of specific initiatives
- development of case study material
- survey of provision