Skills and Enterprise Training for College Success
Engaging Employers • Boosting Student Employability • Delivering Qualifications
Ride the Wave
Call 0870 7201071

The Working Knowledge Group Limited
8 Brunswick Square
Bristol
BS2 8PE
Tel: 0870 720 1071

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Student Success
Adding this programme of 'learning by doing' to a young person’s education equips them for enterprise and helps them to actively engage with their community. Ride The Wave will enable a young person to work with others more effectively, tackle problem solving more efficiently and improve their own learning and performance. These skills will stay with them for life.

If you would like to know more about Ride the Wave then please contact us on 0870 720 1071 or email ridethewave@twkg.net.


Wider Key Skills
Teaching wider key skills in schools, colleges and higher education establishments has never been more important. Wider key skills turn students into enterprising, employable graduates who are ready to engage with today’s working environments. The government’s Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) has made funding available to help education establishments provide wider key skills training to students.     more
Communication Skills
Good communication skills are crucial. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively marks the difference between an employable graduate with career potential and one who is unable to function well in the workplace and in social settings.     more
Enterprise
Adding structured wider key skills learning to a young person’s education equips them for enterprise and helps them to actively engage with their community. Wider key skills will enable a young person to work with others more effectively, tackle problem solving more efficiently and improve their own learning and performance. These skills will stay with them for life.     more
Widening Participation
Widening participation in learning helps students to achieve and succeed. Students who participate more readily in their education feel more engaged and have a greater sense of confidence which they are then likely to carry forward into their working lives as adults.     more
Effective Presentation Skills
The effective presentation skills learned during wider key skills study are directly transferable, helping young people to be better suited to the demands of the modern business environment.     more
Public Speaking
A good public speaker is confident and outgoing with a speech that is underpinned by excellent research and solid background preparation. Public speaking skills are seen by employers as key attributes in graduates, as they illustrate a young person’s confidence and maturity.     more
Every Child Matters
Every Child Matters (ECM) is a government programme which focuses on improving and maintaining the wellbeing of all children up to the age of 19. Its multi-agency approach aims to unite organisations and individuals including schools and colleges, social workers, health professionals and the police so that better support can be offered to young people.     more