"All students have been involved and all seem to have benefited from the activities. All have enjoyed it and have grown as individuals. Their understanding of business is evident and very impressive."

"EIA brought schools and industry together seamlessly. The gap between education and the world of work was effortlessly merged."

"EiA ran the classroom like a business. At the start Derek got the kids in tune, fired up and interested. There was a lot of work to be done in a very short space of time. I didn’t think we’d ever get through it but we did."

"Excellent / outstanding week on all counts. The EiA coach was inspirational to the girls. All enterprise capacities / skills covered and extended."

"I had no preconceived ideas about the project but my experience working with outside organisations in the past had been that there were normally a few major problems, but this project went really smoothly. "

"I have truly seen a change in all who took part."

"I learnt personally that using language that students use often grabs their attention and breaks down the authority barrier "

"I want to own my own dance studio and now I know all the things I have to take into consideration"

"It brought real life problem solving situations into the classroom and made the students respond in a very adult way. "