What the experts say......

These comments (from independent sources) highlight the importance of tracking enterprise capabilities in your school/college:

"Schools are delivering enterprise education in many different ways - most successfully by embedding it into the curriculum. However, students' enterprise capability is most likely to develop where they are supported by effective assessment. NFER, 2007

"Enterprise education has the greatest positive impact in those schools which use assessment to help develop students' enterprise capability." National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007

"Schools need to be clearer about the learning outcomes expected from enterprise education and to have better systems in place to assess and monitor student progress" Ofsted, 2005

"Very few schools had effective procedures in place to assess and evaluate pupils' enterprise learning," Learning to be enterprising, Ofsted HMSO, August 2004

"identify the learning outcomes pupils are expected to gain from enterprise activities in terms of their knowledge, understanding, skills and attributes" ibid

"Every kid is distinctive and different and if they are involved in enterprise activities then there needs to be some way of capturing what it is they have done and what they have learnt." Enterprise Education Manager

"Our goal is to ensure that all students (...) receive the benefit of enterprise education, and that all schools embed enterprise education into what they teach and how they teach". Phil Hope (Skills Minister), 2006

"more work needs to be undertaken to develop sharper more detailed learning objectives for enterprise education, including economic and business understanding and financial capability." Developing enterprising young people, Ofsted HMSO, November 2005

"Monitoring of students progress and assessment were identified as weaknesses in Learning to be enterprising and, despite some progress, they continue to be underdeveloped in many schools." ibid

"Reflection and review are an essential part of learning from experience" QCA, 2004