Cornwall Education Business Partnership (CEBP) works with:
employers
schools and
colleges
to help young people prepare for the world of work. Developing knowledge, character and employability skills. This is done through a range of careers related activities and work experience. While increasing social mobility and challenging stereotypes.
What we do
For over twenty-five years, Cornwall EBP has delivered motivational programmes for young people.
Through a range of activities and events we aim to:
increase enterprise and entrepreneurship skills.
support meaningful work experience.
provide impartial ‘real world’ careers information linked to the local labour market.
raise achievement, aspiration, progression and decision making in young people
develop Cornwall’s future workforce and economy
Our current programmes;
Working with primary schools
When pupils learn about the world of work before age 11, it can improve their:
learning outcomes
behaviour and emotional resilience, and
can ease the transition from primary to secondary.
Research by Education and Employers has shown that meeting people from the world of work helps to:
broaden young people’s horizons
raise their aspirations, and
increase motivation to learn
which leads to improvements in attainment and also helps tackle stereotypical views.
EBP helps primary schools enrich learning about the world of work.
We do this through:
Curriculum-based STEAM projects
Interactive assemblies
Group activities
These activities introduce pupils to different jobs and the people who work in their local communities and beyond.
For example, EBP delivered a chocolate-themed project to support the science curriculum. Pupils explored the science behind chocolate, including heating, cooling, melting points, and how taste and smell affect our experience of food.
Pupils then used this knowledge to design and create their own chocolate bars.
To bring the learning to life, EBP arranged a session with a local chocolatier. Pupils learned about careers in food production, product development, and business. They also saw how science is used in the workplace every day.
Current Events and Projects
Working with Key Stage 3, 4 and 5
We engage with local and national businesses to work schools.
To provide young people with meaningful employer encounters and experiences of the workplace.
Research from Education and Employers shows that a young person who has four or more employer encounters is:
86% less likely to be Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)
Earn up to 22% more during their career
Cornwall Education Business Partnerships Key Stage 3,4 and 5 delivery includes:
STEM careers-related learning
‘Have a go’ activities
Dragons Den challenge
Management of work experience
Supporting events for work experience. Including: health, safety and welfare preparation for work experience
Employability skills development programmes
Careers Fairs
Activities linking careers to the curriculum
Passport to Work Experience
Work experience
Work experience is a government scheme offered to school students in Year 10 or above. The student has a placement at an employer's premises. Students carry out particular tasks or duties, more or less as would an employee. The emphasis is on the learning aspects of the experience.
Visit the Work Experience page
Services for school
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