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Young entrepreneurs mean business

By , Friday 07 August 2015

At NCFE, we believe learning should be accessible at any age, and pupils at Walkergate Primary School and Tyneview Primary School have been showing that you’re never too young to go above and beyond with your learning. The young entrepreneurs, aged 10 and 11, have completed their entry level awards in investigating enterprise skills through Primary Inspiration through Enterprise (PIE), an organisation that teaches young people enterprise skills and encourages them to use their initiative.

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Tackling youth unemployment - what’s the answer?

By Lindsay Plumpton, Communications Leader, Thursday 20 September 2012

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According to a report this week by the Work and Pensions Select Committee, the Government's youth contract is “insufficient” to tackle the scale of youth unemployment on its own. The youth contract provides £1bn for a range of initiatives aimed at getting young people into employment. Measures include providing 160,000 employers with a "wage incentive" of £2,275 to take on an unemployed 18-24 year-old, 250,000 work experience placements and also additional support from Jobcentre Plus.

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Is enterprise the key to economic growth?

By Lindsay Plumpton, Communications Leader, Tuesday 31 July 2012

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We all like a bank holiday, although chances are George Osborne may be disappointed we have had so many this year. The news, last week, that Britain was experiencing its first double-dip recession since the 1970s was in part blamed on the additional bank holiday in June.  Not great news for a Chancellor steering a struggling economy through its third quarterly contraction in a row. But whilst these latest figures present a picture of doom and gloom, other factors seem to be painting a more positive outlook.  The recent drop in unemployment and a slow but steady housing market would point towards an improving economy (albeit slowly).

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