TEEN TYCOONS

CURRICULUM RELEVANCE

England

Work-related learning

This is statutory for all students at key stage 4. Students should:

• Recognise, develop and apply their skills for enterprise and employability
• Learn about the way business enterprises operate, working roles and conditions, and rights and responsibilities in the work place
• Gain experience (direct or indirect) of working practices and environments.

Enterprise education

• Enterprise capability – to create and implement new ideas and ways of doing things, to handle uncertainty and respond positively to change, to make reasonable risk/reward assessments and to act upon them in one's personal and working life.
• Business and economic understanding – to understand the business context and make informed choices between alternative uses of scarce resources.

Wales

Work-related education

• Understanding the changing demands of working life and its main economic features
• Having positive, adaptable and enterprising attitudes to lifelong learning and employment.

Northern Ireland

Learning for Life and Work Area*

• Employability Strand
• Key Concept – Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.

Scotland

Excellence through Enterprise*