‘Enterprising Minds’ is a Carnegie UK Trust study researching the attitudes of 16-21 year old further education students to entrepreneurship, flexible employment and the future economy.

The Carnegie UK Trust has a long heritage in further and vocational education, having funded the establishment of the Workers’ Educational Association, Carnegie College in Leeds, Coleg Harlech in Wales, Newbattle Abbey in Scotland and many more colleges and programmes. The Trust wants to build on its significant legacy as an institutional grant provider to re-engage with the modern further education sector as a positive, contributing partner.

The Trust has launched the Enterprising Minds project to help better understand the views and aspiration of younger learners, and future workers. Delivered through an innovative peer-to-peer research technique at 13 Partner Colleges across the UK, Enterprising Minds will produce exciting new data on the economic and educational experiences of younger citizens.

The project will report in Spring 2012. The primary research is being conducted by 48 Carnegie Student Interns at the Partner Colleges, who have been recruited and trained by the Trust.

We have also launched an eSurvey to allow students at other colleges to take part, too. For more information about the eSurvey, click here.


Field research kits for the Partner Colleges ready for delivery at Andrew Carnegie House.