HMIE: Improving Enterprise in Education

This HMIE report examines the extent to which enterprise in education has helped, and can continue to help, to address the priority issues facing Scottish education and their relationship with economic and social change.

This report touches upon on several key areas including:

• achievement
• curriculum
• learning and teaching
• inclusion
• underperformance
• leadership and innovation
• accountability. 

These are features which are evident in many of the enterprise experiences evaluated in this report, confirming the role that enterprise can play in improving vocational provision for all.

The report aims to contribute to the debate about what learning and achievement in Scotland should look like in the years to come, and how best to achieve the desired outcomes for young learners. It marks important progress in schools’ use of enterprise in education as a stimulus for effective learning in relation to Curriculum for Excellence.