List of Colleges Below:

Teaching Resources

Co-operative Education Trust Scotland - promotes learning about co-operatives and what they do.


Enterprise Courses - A guide of the units currently listed on the SQA website for the delivery of Enterprise either as a standalone unit or as part of a group award. (updated September 2010)

Unit Number Unit Title SCQF Level Date Written
F5 6E 07 Personal Development - Enterprise Activity Access 1 2009
EF 7P 08 Skillstart Enterprise Activity Access 2 97/98
D5 36 08 Craftwork Enterprise Access 2 1999
F3 7M 08 Self and Work: Enterprise Activity Access 2 2008
D5 18 08 Working in a Business Enterprise: An Introduction Access 2 2001
D5 36 09 Craftwork Enterprise Access 3 2000
D3 6N 09 Enterprise Activity Access 3 2001
D5 22 09 Working in a Business Enterprise Access 3 1999
D3 6N 10 Enterprise Activity 4 / Int 1 2009
F5 7E 10 Working for Yourself 4
DV 4G 10 Business Enterprise 4 / Int 1 2006
NPA Enterprise and Employability 4 2009
G7 NL 10 SPA Enterprise and Employability Int 1 2004
D3 6N 11 Enterprise Activity 5 / Int 2 2009
F5 7E 11 Working for Yourself 5
DV 4G 11 Business Enterprise 5 / Int 2 2006
NPA Enterprise and Employability 5 2009
G7 NM 11 SPA Enterprise and Employability Int 2 2004
EF 3J 12 Business Enterprise Higher 96/97
DV 4G 12 Business Enterprise Higher 2006
F3 HT 34 Personal Enterprise Skills 7 2008
G7 PO 15 PDA Enterprise and Employability 2004

 

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Scottish Food and Drink Federation FE and HE Competition

Please see further information on the Scottish Food and Drink Federation website.
Enterprise Catalyst - Enterprise Catalyst is a useful resource for using with learners as it provides a skills audit report that they can print off and keep. It also has useful resources for staff.
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Enterprise UK - On 1 March 2011 we will loan hundreds of thousands of pounds to students across the UK. Each student will be given £10 and asked to make as much money and as much social good as possible. What would you do? Register your interest now!
Fairtrade Foundation - learn more about the Fairtrade movement, products and recipes.
PeTAPETA Education Resources -  Education is at the very heart of our work, and we are committed to helping teachers convey lessons of compassion within their prescribed subjects. Teaching pupils to have empathy for other beings is essential to raising kind, compassionate citizens. In learning to respect and care for animals, pupils become empowered to take responsibility for their actions. They also apply the concepts of respect and kindness toward animals in their own lives and help build safe and caring communities.
Poppyscotland's Education Project - Poppy Scotland produces a free range of educational materials that can be used in a variety of subject areas. For the first time they have made this material available to and relevant for the college sector. The materials available include posters, DVD’s and teaching notes.  There is also a national poetry competition, which this year has a category for college students.

The Poppy Scotland pack would also be useful for students looking for organisations to support through fund raising. Perhaps they could even run an event for Poppy Scotland. Guest speakers and tours of the poppy factory can also be arranged. There are even virtual poppies that can be planted and other useful fundraising aids.
Marvel - a webiste on comics, movies, TV, videos, games, news and the rest!

MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global mindmeisterbrainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere. In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map and see each other's changes as they happen. An alternative resouce is Bubl.us.
NESTA - Our enterprise resource toolkit contains tried and tested methods for teaching enterprise skills to creative individuals who are thinking about setting up a business.
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. An alternative is Quedoc.
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that you can see the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection. An alternative resource is Diigo.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. An alternative resouce is Wallwisher.
Go!Animate is a free online animation tool that enables everyone — no artistic ability required — to create their own animated stories and share them with the world. An alternative resouce is XtraNormal.
PhotoStory - create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. A range of options for education, from Digital storytelling to showcasing student work. An alternative resource is Microsoft Moviemaker.
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). An alternative resouce is Wink.
ICA is an independent, non-governmental association which unites, represents and serves co-operatives worldwide.
Co-operatives UK is the national trade body that campaigns for co-operation and works to promote, develop and unite co-operative enterprises.

Mondragon - The Corporation’s Mission combines the core goals of a business organisation competing on international markets with the use of democratic methods in its business organisation.



Give every child a voice for every 250 phones collected you receive a promethean handset
Innovative Enterprise provide kits for students to create soap for enterprise units
Support your school £1 for every ink cartridge recycled and £3 for every mobile recycled and reused
Bag2TheFuture - provide recycling for unwanted textiles for charity and the organisation
Plasq - Comic Life
Lego City - Comic builder
Terracycle - recycling pens every pen = 2 pence
Smarta - This site provides lots of business advice and case studies on starting up various different types of businesses. There are also useful forum and blog discussions.
Social Earth - a socially minded weblog about businesses who are doing good.
Social Enterprise - produce a magazine and weekly ebulletin about social enterprise in the UK and beyond.
Society for Effectual Action - Effectuation is a logic used by expert entrepreneurs to solve problems in highly uncertain market environments. Entrepreneurs can learn to think and act effectually, thereby increasing their ability to create successful ventures.
Businessfunding.co.uk - a simple and easy to use website that helps businesses and individuals find sources of funding or finance to start up or grow their business.
University of Aberdeen - The Scottish Programme for Entrepreneurship - Support for anyone responsible for facilitating entrepreneurship and enterprise skills.
ECCH - An independant, educational, non-profit, membership based organisation with no share capital and are a registered charity.
TED - Ideas worth spending Ken Robinson say's schools kill creativity - Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
TED - Changing education paradigms - In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.
TED - David S Rose Profile - David S. Rose is a split-screen legend to the world's entrepreneurs. He's been both a mentor to hundreds of startup hopefuls and, sometimes -- to the talented and fortunate -- a funder. His rapid-fire seminars on pitching to venture capitalists are celebrated and sought-after. He's helped invest many millions of dollars in startups through New York Angels (companies like Peter Diamandis' ZERO-G), meanwhile raising tens of millions for his own companies.
TED - Richard Branson Profile - He's ballooned across the Atlantic, floated down the Thames with the Sex Pistols, and been knighted by the Queen. His megabrand, Virgin, is home to more than 250 companies, from gyms, gambling houses and bridal boutiques to fleets of planes, trains and limousines. The man even owns his own island.
TED - Seth Godin Profile - "Seth Godin may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age," Mary Kuntz wrote in Business Week nearly a decade ago. "Instead of widgets or car parts, he specializes in ideas -- usually, but not always, his own." In fact, he's as focused on spreading ideas as he is on the ideas themselves.
TED - Richard Branson's life at 30,000 feet - Richard Branson talks to TED's Chris Anderson about the ups and the downs of his career, from his multibillionaire success to his multiple near-death experiences -- and reveals some of his (very surprising) motivations.
TED - Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs - Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults.