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Evaluation of the University of Warwick's outreach programme, UniTracks : The Warwick Young Achievers' Programme : Report 2 : The Big Deal Enterprise Challenge, 2016
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Cullen, Stephen Michael (2016) Evaluation of the University of Warwick's outreach programme, UniTracks : The Warwick Young Achievers' Programme : Report 2 : The Big Deal Enterprise Challenge, 2016. Coventry: Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR), University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Executive Summary
The Big Deal competition is a core part of the University of Warwick’s UniTracks programme, offering a ten week, supported, business and enterprise competition to UniTracks members in their first year of membership (Year 10 at school).
For 2016, 14 schools put forward teams, each of which had a maximum of five UniTracks members. The competition was launched on 15/16thJanuary, and was followed by nine weeks of weekly tasks, mentored via an online resource, before the Big Deal heats, held at the University of Warwick. The successful teams from the heats went through to the final, held on 18 April at the Shard in London.
The main elements of the competition were: the Launch event; the Brightside Blogs focusing on a weekly schedule supported by the business and student mentors; the heats; the final.
The evaluation collected data from business mentors, student mentors, participating young people, school staff, and the Brightside Trust. Findings are presented relating to each data source, with ten recommendations being made.
The recommendations relate to:
The role of schools and school staff: the need for full commitment to support their young people.
The role of schools and school staff: the choice of which staff, from which department, to support young people in a business and enterprise competition.
The workload commitment required from school students.
The role and engagement of student mentors.
The Big Deal blogs.
The Big Deal launch event: communication between the Warwick Business School and UniTracks’ teams and the business mentors, particularly prior to the event.
The Big Deal launch event: a review of the timing and content of thebudgeting and finance presentation.
The Big Deal launch event: school teams should come prepared with short presentations covering their initial ideas of an entrepreneurial project.
The Big Deal launch event: it was suggested by some of the mentors that it would be helpful if pre-launchcontact between business and student mentor pairs could be arranged.
The student mentor role: more rigorous recruiting to this important role, and more opportunities for the student mentors to spend time with the teams.
| Item Type: | Report | ||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Low-income high school students -- England, School contests | ||||||
| Publisher: | Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR), University of Warwick | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||||
| Official Date: | 19 July 2016 | ||||||
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| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
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