9:45 am - 4:00 pm 26/06/2025
EEUK Enterprise Exchange: Enterprise Education and ITE (Initial Teacher Education) – How can EE be embedded, lessons from the Curriculum for Wales
Online
Thursday 26th June 2025, 09.40am for a 10am start – 4.00pm
Summary
This exchange event will showcase the ways in which Enterprise Education is embedded in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). It aims to bring together HE, FE and teachers to explore how the Curriculum for Wales has highlighted the importance of enterprise from the earliest years of education. Activities will highlight how Teacher Training programmes are developing educators who are not only enterprising but are ready to develop enterprise in others.
The event will consist of three key strands:
- How is enterprise education embedded in teaching and teacher education.
- How can enterprise be incorporated into the curriculum, with a particular focus on the impact of the Curriculum for Wales.
- How we can work in partnership across HE/FE and business to develop opportunities.
The event will be an online mini conference. Presentations and panels will delivered live online as well as being recorded so that they can be available as asynchronous assets. In this way, the event will both develop innovative provision for students entering teaching and can also provide professional learning materials for practicing educators.
Speakers & Facilitators
Facilitators will include:
Dr Nia Young, Director of Professional Learning and Community Engagement, School of Education, Bangor University.
Dr Beth Edwards, Enterprise Education Development Co-Ordinator, Bangor University
Panel Members include:
Professor Fay Short, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Employability, Bangor University
Hazel Israel, Education and Skills Advisor, Bantani Education
Dr. Graham French, Deputy Head of School of Education, Bangor University
Professor Emeritus Andy Penaluna
Cost to attend
This event is free for all to the attend, EEUK has waived the non-member fee.
AGENDA (subject to change)
| 9.45am | Virtual room opens | |
| 10am | Welcome and Conference Introduction. Open online question submission for Interactive panel with 1:30pm deadline | |
| 10.30am | Panel Discussion: How has the Curriculum for Wales affected the way in which enterprise is embedded in Education? | |
| 11.15am | Comfort Break | |
| 11.30am | Panel Discussion: What can ITE teach us about how we teach enterprise to adults and children? | |
| 12.15pm | Keynote Talk: Professor Emeritus Andy Penaluna | |
| 12.45pm | Lunch | |
| 1.45pm | Dual-stream workshops
Workshop 1: Led by Emily Roberts from M-SParc: Teamwork makes work a dream – how collaboration improves opportunities for enterprise education. Workshop 2: Led by Dr Graham French Identifying and highlighting the enterprise in what we already do – an example from outdoor education. |
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| 2.45pm | Comfort Break | |
| 3pm | Panel Q&A | |
| 3.45pm | Closing remarks | |
| 4pm | End of Conference |