Enterprise and employment


 Youth unemployment and the ‘enrolment cure’: a case for skills before schooling

Author: Trey Menefee
Without a doubt, too many young adults across the Commonwealth are ensnared in a prolonged economic crisis…
Strategies for supporting youth employment and the school-to-work transition

Author: Michelle Engmann, Shubha Jayaram and Milan Thomas
With the global youth unemployment rate at 12.6 per cent and projected to rise further…
Demand and supply: youth entrepreneurship in context

Author: Rajkumar Bidla
There appears to be growing recognition that youth employment should be declared a priority in…
Gains for girls: supporting young entrepreneurs in Kenya

Author: Barri Shorey, Neetu Mahil and Stephen Okello Oguwa
At 20 per cent of the total population of Kenya, young women – those aged 16 to 24…
Teaching financial inclusion in a rural Jamaican high school

Author: Elizabeth A. Gordon
Within the blue Caribbean Sea sits the isle of Jamaica. Its population of almost 2.7 million…
Enterprise education and the role of banking

Author: Samuel Kasumu
We in the Commonwealth recognise the need to encourage and educate tomorrow’s wealth creators…
Schools at University for Climate and Energy (SAUCE)

Author: Nicholas Watts
About five years ago, a consortium of academics with backgrounds in climate and energy policy…
The school co-operative – a training ground for future entrepreneurs

Author: Hariffah Afifah Syed Abbas
The First Malaysian Co-operative Congress in 1953 passed a resolution urging the government to set up co-operatives in schools…
The learning catalyst for job creators

Author: Rahul Mirchandani
The Commonwealth has never had a younger aggregation of citizens, with bursting energy and unlimited passion…
The Commonwealth School Enterprise Challenge

Author: Lindsey Crouch and Susannah Morcowitz
The rate of global youth unemployment continues to rise. At the same time, we are inching closer towards achieving the UN…