SBEA Mini Conference

I attended the SBEA mini conference in Stirling on Saturday 23rd Feb.

It explained a bit more in detail exactly what aCfE is going to be all about. The good news it seems for us in Business Education is that we may actually have an opportunity to have Business and Enterprise subjects taught at S1 and S2.

I do hope this doesn't mean we lose out on our IT classes to Computing!

But it must be a step in the right direction to gain more credibility for our subjects.

On another personal note, I would like to see Enterprise Education become timetabled in more schools and that the PT Enterprise & Creativity jobs are given more to Business Teachers rather than subject disciplines that may be enterprising in the sense of effecting learning and teaching, but do they have the necessary COMMERCIAL experience?

I would love to see our Business subjects be seen as important in the way they are in the USA. Business Degrees are right up there with Law and Medicine in the States.

On a final note, I watched with my class a video about John Caudwell and his star graduate recruitment programme. It was like a proto-Apprentice. The best bit was when his HR manager sifted through 2,500 CVs and only allowing 10 seconds for each. She picked up one and said: "This degree is non-commercial. Not what we're looking for." And she put it in the file going to the shredder. The sighs and look of despair from my Higher students was scary.

Perhaps also Teachers who have careers influence will think about this when they are telling kids to pick their subject!

Employers want practical skills and Business know-how. We can offer both at a High School level.

Anyway rant over!