Enterprise

The college holds an enterprise events for full-time Level 3 students at Redcar & Cleveland College. 

It is an innovative scheme aimed at boosting students’ enterprise skills and improving their employability prospects.  Students get the chance to engage in hands on activities such as business ideas generation, developing a business plan in the areas of sales, people and finance, alongside local business experts. 

The scheme provides students with an insight into what it is like to set up their own business.  The event culminates in a Dragon’s Den style meeting where the students sell their ideas to the business experts and get the opportunity to win cash prizes.

The programme usually runs during the month of November and students can find out more through specially organised tutorial sessions with the College’s Enterprise Champions.

The event helps students to develop commercial awareness, business language skills, negotiation and presentation skills and improve their self confidence, which all boost their employability.

The students engaged in a number of hands-on group activities to develop a business plan, in such areas as sales and finance, with the help of experts from local business. The experts advised them on their ideas before the teams came back to pitch to them in a Dragon’s Den style meeting.

Read more about the 2011 event

Read more about the  2010 event

“We have delivered the Enterprise programme within the college for the last six years and have consistently found that it equips our Level 3 students with a range of highly relevant skills that are more important than ever in the current economic environment.”

Gary Groom, Principal of Redcar & Cleveland College 

"It's made me realise that it's not beyond me to think about starting a business of my won once I've finished my course."

                                                        Louis Jinx from team Wham

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