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Four vital enterprise skills for your students

Entrepreneurship expert Carly Ward considers the challenge facing schools in preparing students for the modern world of work – and describes the four key entrepreneurship skills that teachers must instil in young people.

The UK is fast becoming the “self-employment capital” of Western Europe with the number of people choosing to be their own boss increasing by eight per cent over the past year according to the IPPR think-tank – faster than in any other Western European country.

This sends a clear message that the nature of employment in the UK is changing rapidly. The responsibility of helping to create a new generation of entrepreneurs and a better prepared future workforce falls to teachers and educators, who need to equip their students with the knowledge and, perhaps more importantly, the attitude to face this new landscape.

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