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All students were asked to complete a printed questionnaire both before and after participating in this Programme, to assess the impact of the Programme on their own skills, and its benefit for their future plans. 99.98% of forms were returned and have been analysed for this report.

1. The Programme
Students set up and run their own mini company in ten sessions, with a music industry theme. They work together to appoint job roles and raise share capital before researching, designing, producing and marketing a product or service. Harnessing their natural passion for music, whilst gaining an understanding of the range of career options in the music industry, the students develop the skills and qualities required for business and enterprise.

2. Centre aims and objectives

This report has been generated from all the student evaluation reports completed during the academic year 20102011 total number of reports accounted for in this report 4717.

3. Key skills development

Students were asked to rate their key skills pre- and post-Programme, using a a four point scale: 1 "I have little/no skills"; 2 "I have some skills"; 3 "I have good skills"; 4 "I have excellent skills". For analysis, scores were totalled and percentage increase between pre- and post- values calculated.
Skill evaluated 1. Communication 2. Working in a team 3. Solving problems 4. Dealing w/ praise/criticism 5. Creative thinking 6. Planning 7. Literacy 8. Numeracy % increase 13.5 13.9 17.6 19.1 14.4 19.8 10.3 10.4 Significance*
Weighted cumulative

scores

Pre Post

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Skill evaluated (see table right)

* indicates that the increase in rating is statistically significant at the 95% confidence interval (T-Test statistics). That is, there is than a 5% chance that the observed increase resulted from chance alone.

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4. Aspects of Programme enjoyed and found most useful

Students were asked which aspects of the day they enjoyed/did not enjoy, and which they felt would be most useful to them in the future.
1. Working in a team 2. Making decisions 3. Managing your time 4. Leading on a task 5. Being creative 6. Meeting business people 7. Selling and negotiating 8. Doing presentations 9. Learning about business 10. Being competitive 11. Learning by Doing
% of respondents

15

10

Enjoyed Did not enjoy Useful

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Aspect of Programme

5. Working towards future plans

Students were asked to indicate whether they felt that participating in the Programme would help them work towards their future plans in any of five ways.
1. Consider different career options 2. Strengthened decision-making skills 3. Increased financial awareness 4. Improved confidence to achieve goals 5. Encouraged to identify skills & areas to develop
100 80 60 40 20 0 1 2 3 4 5 Area affected

% respondents

Yes No

6. Commentary
Having been asked to mark themselves pre and post delivery, the following is an analysis of the results by 4717 students for the 3 sections assessed. Section 3: Key Skills development. Of the 8 areas marked in this section there has been a significant increase in all areas. The top 3 being Planning which saw an increase of 19.8%, Dealing with praise/criticism whice rose by 19.1% and Solving problems which increased by 17.6%. All vital everyday skills needed when considering employment/self employment. Section 4: Aspects of programme enjoyed and found most useful. There were 11 areas in this section that students were asked to mark against, enjoyed, didn't enjoy or useful for the future. The results showed that most all were marked positively as enjoyed with the top 3 being, Working in a team, Being creative and Being competitive. The 3 areas least enjoyed where, Doing presentations, Managing your time and Leading on a task and the 3 areas though to be useful for the future were, Managing yout time, Making decisions and Learning about business. Section 5: Working towards future plans. This section saw students having to make a judgement on 5 areas whether it would help them for the future. All areas were marked highly as 'yes' with the top 3 being, Strengthened decision making, increased financial awareness and Improved confidence to achieve goals.

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