As a follow up to the Norfolk Chamber’s ‘Audience with George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer’ event on the 7 November, we submitted a number of questions from our members to the Chancellor. Responses to those questions are now starting to be received from the relevant Ministers within Westminster.
Elaine Mather is Relationship Director at Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking. Santander have been members of the Chamber since May of 2012.
Elaine’s question to the Chancellor was:
“I have come from a background of running businesses so am a business woman working for a bank. While running the businesses and during my banking day job I see people struggle with the basic fundamentals of running a business, the kinds of skills that are fundamental to the successful of any business, basic, not specialist skills.
Why do we not have business skills built into a school curriculum as an essential life skill, which will conversely cross over into the private life of running a house, a budget etc. Why do we not teach and sit an exam for it?
We do not teach enough of the basic skills to all for young adults to be able to make informed, constructive decisions as and when needed to progress. I work with many schools and projects and can see progression for some but by no means all, it needs to be a part of everyday life not an extra.”
Find on the attached document the written response from the Department for Education and Childcare.
