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Transform your classroom into Dragons’ Den and invest in our best student competition yet!

b-live and the ICAEW (The Institute of Chartered Accountants) have launched their most exciting competition yet – Step into Business 2009. Based on the popular BBC TV series Dragons’ Den, this exclusive competition places your students in the hot seats typically reserved for dragons Jones, Bannatyne, Meaden and Paphitis.

Participating students will be asked to invest an imaginary £50,000 in one of three fictional products and use business analysis models to ascertain which is the most financially viable.

The winning team will win an all expenses paid trip to London to mix the business of picking up career-boosting skills with the pleasure of visiting the capital’s top tourist attraction!

Winning students will...

• Meet and Interview the Chief Executive of a global organisation (the ICAEW); picking up top tips for their own future job interview
• Participate in and direct the filming of the interview, boosting media and ICT skills. An edited version of the interview will appear online
• The opportunity to network with senior members of large organisations and ICAEW staff over a delicious business lunch; pick up key advice on what employers look for in job applicants and gain invaluable insight into careers in accountancy
• Attend ICAEW’s Business Sustainability workshop on the day; the perfect addition to any student’s CV
• A trip on one of the capital’s most popular attractions, The London Eye

Step into Business 2009 covers key components of the business studies curriculum, exercises employability skills and also supports your school’s delivery of key skills and ECM outcomes 4 and 5.

Three comprehensive Lesson Plans and supporting documents will enable you to deliver the competition with ease.

Year Groups that can take part: Year 10, 11, 12, 13

The deadline for entries: November 13 2009.

Can you and your students afford to miss this extraordinary opportunity?

Click on the links below to download and find out more!
 

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