At Eureka, we are passionate about conveying our years' worth of personal business and enterprise experience to young people who want to have a go at turning their often inspirational visions into fruitful reality; however, again and again we run up against too much red tape and not enough funding to allow us to run our engaging enterprise and life skills programmes in schools and for NEET young people via councils.
Thearticle quoted a report by Enterprise UK, which had polled 1,000 14-19 year olds across the UK last month and showed that
- 51% of those polled would like to be their own boss (however, only 5% will actually set up a business)
- only 1 in 5 believe that their school encourages them to become entrepreneurial
- a whopping 56% thought (like Eureka!) that business education should be mandatory at school
- 1 in 4 said that TV programmes like Dragons' Den teach them more about business than their school
Shocking statistics. Surely with the desire present to learn about enterprise and business skills, schools and local authorities - with sufficient government support - ought to be able to tap into this enthusiasm and support their young charges in becoming fulfilled and successful entrepreneurs who achieve economic well-being instead of adding to the ever-growing youth unemployment figures, which currently stand at 20.5% - the highest level since 1992!
Contact Eureka to find out more about our tailor-made business, enterprise and life skills programmes on 01727 850668.
