Fiona Rawes MBE

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• Fiona Rawes MBE
• Education Campaign Director
• Business in the Community

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So whats the problem?

• .... Few schools reported highly developed
  partnerships where the level of engagement is
  systematic across the school and many would like
  partnerships to be more sustainable for both the
  school and for the employer.
• Evaluation of Education and Employer
  Partnerships, KPMG (May 2010)

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• How is Business Class Distinctive?

• Sustained 3 year partnership
• Rooted in needs of school through gap analysis
  across 4 key areas
• Local and national collaboration through
  clusters

Curriculum Support
Enterprise Employability
Wider Issues
Leadership Governance
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• Business Class Clusters

Stirling ?
? Teesside (inc. Redcar)
Derry ?
Belfast ? Lurgan
? Pendle ?Burnley
? Blackburn
Preston ?
?
Liverpool ?

• Leeds
• Bradford

• Manchester
• Salford
• Stockport
• Tameside

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• ? Wakefield
• Sheffield

? North Wales
Black Country ?
? Nottingham
Derbyshire ?
?
Great Yarmouth
?
? Peterborough Fenland
Birmingham ?
? Northamptonshire
? Cambridge
Warwickshire ?
? Coventry
? Milton Keynes
? Gloucester
Heads of the Valley ?
Swindon ?
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Cardiff ?
Slough ?

• Hackney
• Westminster
• Tower Hamlets
• Islington

? Bristol
Reading ?
Basingstoke ?
? Southampton
? Worthing Brighton
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• Businesses in active or developing partnerships

Squire Sanders Hammonds Styles Wood Thames
Water The Enterprise Centre Thomas Vale TNT
Express Toyota UBS UCFB University Hospital
Coventry PCT UPM Valuations Office VEKA Veolia
Environmental Services VISA Europe Volkswagen
Finance Group Wates Weatherite Holdings West
Mercia Housing William King World Duty Free Wylfa
Power station Yorkshire Bank Yorkshire
Water Zurich National Champion
Goldman Sachs Graham and Brown Hadley
Industries Henderson Highland Spring HMRC Home
Retail Group Honda HSE ICE ISS Facilities Jaguar
Land Rover John Laing John Lewis Jonathon
Lee Kier Kingspan Insulator Panels KPMG Lendlease
Linklaters Lloyds Banking Group Lorne
Stewart Manchester Working Mansell
Construction Marks and Spencer Martineau Maxxium
UK Mersey Fire Rescue
Mersey Rail Mersey Travel Metsec Midcounties
Co-operative Morrison Nationwide NEC Nokia
Siemens Northgate Managed Services Oracle
Pannone Pets at Home Pinsent Masons Principality
Building Society Prudential PwC PZ
Cussons Redcliffe Catering Ridgeons Sanctury
Housing Scottish Power Sharp Shoesmith SHS (Sales
and Marketing) Siemans Sodexo Springfield Fuels
Carillion Chesapeake Citi Group City of
London Cluttons Coca-Cola Colemore
Housing Contour Housing Corus Crown CSR
plc Daisy Communications Deloitte Diageo DTZ DWF E
cclesiastical Elmfield Training Enterprise 
Enterprise Rent-a-car Ernst Young Euravia
Engineering Eversheds Experian Freshfields Fusion
Contact Centre Geo Post

• 2 Sisters Food
• Group                                       
• Adidas
• AF Blakemore
• Aircelle
• Alcoa
• Alliance and Leicester
• APS Group
• Audi UK
• BAE Systems
• Baker Tilly
• BAM Construction
• Barnfield Construction
• Bates Weston
• BBC Radio Lancashire
• BBC Radio Manchester
• BBC Radio Merseyside
• Belfast Health and Social Care
• Trust

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Prioritising engagement in hard-to-reach
communities
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• Business Class