Student Enterprises

Please put the word out about student enterprises (click here for a definition). I would love to hear from any student (i.e. yourself!) wishing to gain management experiences, or really to develop any skills outside of the classroom, in an independent way. One school down south went so far as to shut down their entire Sixth Form building, turning it into a hotel that students managed, did the bookings, catering for and the cleaning --all just to give students experience with a start-up.

One less drastic example is the Writhlington Business and Enterprise School which helped students set up an nursery on the school grounds for growing and selling orchids. They now send students around the world every year to collect new species of Orchids to hybirdize and sell. All this came about because one student thought it would be a good idea.