Head of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Employability at Bryanston School, Dorset, Caroline de Mowbray, explores the importance of entrepreneurial skills in preparing pupils for success in the modern world.
When a new government comes into power, there is hope and speculation that every individual and organisation will somehow be better off. For independent schools, the government’s manifesto made it clear quite early on that there would be little to cheer, but the scale of change, and its timing, was difficult to predict.
The new government made no secret of its desire to level playing fields, whether between bricks and mortar retailers and online marketplaces, or private educators and state education providers. The problems arise when there are multiple changes, and especially when they are confirmed with very little forward warning.