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About The Working Knowledge Group
Working Knowledge is committed to narrowing the gap between education and the workplace; raising the aspirations and employability skills of students and opening the eyes of employers to how young people can help drive business success in a rapidly changing economic environment.
The Working Knowledge team has first hand experience of starting, growing and managing businesses, and is very acutely aware of the need to build knowledge and capacity in young people for them to actively contribute to businesses of all sizes.
The core processes behind Working Knowledge’s methods were developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and are unique.
Working Knowledge supports over half of the UK’s universities by training educators and licensing institutions in its methods and tools to build the employability skills of students. There are now over 600 accredited practitioners of its methodologies within universities.
Working Knowledge runs Flux, the largest student employability and enterprise competition in the UK, which involves 100 universities, 130 businesses and thousands of students (www.flux500.com).
In addition, Working Knowledge has significant experience of designing and delivering high-profile enterprise and entrepreneurial activities that are engaging, challenging, effective and fun. For example:
- Lead Partner in the £1million Yell for Enterprise Programme as part of the Corporate Responsibility of the FTSE100 Yell Group supporting 5,000 businesses per year (www.yellforenterprise.com).
- Design and delivery of The Edge, an enterprise competition for years 9 and 10 offered to every secondary school in the South East, funded by the The South East Development Agency (www.haveyougottheedge.com).
- Developer of workshops and products to support Microsoft’s Idea Igloo and the Make your Mark campaign to promote innovation to young people at universities and colleges (www.twkg.net/events).
- Ride the Wave has been developed in cooperation with Redcar and Cleveland College. This two-year
collaboration ensured that the programme effectively meets it’s learning and skills objectives and also clearly demonstrates wider college benefits.
If you would like to know more about Ride the Wave then please contact me James Lott on 0870 720 1071 or review our website at www.widerkeyskills.co.uk
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