Fact File
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* Britain was the first country in the world to establish a business-education network.There are now 150 partnerships in the UK * 150,000 companies give Pounds 450 million a year to schools and colleges in cash and kind * Government and LEAs spend Pounds 30 million a yearon getting business involved in schools * There are permanent schemes in 92 per cent of secondary schools and 58 per cent of primary schools * One in three secondary schools provides services to industry such as maths courses for young recruits * Work experience isoffered in 99 per centof secondary schools * Two-thirds of all work experience contributes to GCSE assessment * One in ten teachers goes on a work placement every year * 350 firms produce teaching materials for national distribution * An OECD report last year put UK businesses top of the league in Europe for education links.
Sources - National Council for Vocational Qualifications, Warwick University Centre for Education and Industry and the National Education Business Partnership Network.
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