APPENDIX III

THE LINK BETWEEN EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: EXAMPLES OF INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES

  1. A college, a service club and a credit union team up to establish a youth ventures capital account. The education and training roles of the college are linked with the business experience available in the services club and with the financial resources of a credit union.

  2. A college offers a core program in entrepreneurship crossing all disciplines and training.

  3. A college assists students in establishing their own enterprises as a source of summer employment.

  4. A student council establishes its own development corporation.

  5. Training in vocational education is linked directly to the amenability of the trade in question to small business development.

  6. A college acts as a catalyst to bring together public and private funding sources for prospective business development.

  7. A college spearheads the creation of a community development corporation as a source of business development and job placement for students.

  8. Economists and business course staff in an education institution act as a resource to local business development.

  9. A college establishes its own training business, providing contracting services to other countries.

  10. An individual student cooperative program is planned by a college to enable any student to combine study with direct work experience.

  11. A college provides the facility, equipment and instructional resources for a promising musical equipment business.

  12. A college or a school board offer community education programs in small business development. There is collaboration with the services of the Ministry of Industry and Small Business Development.

  13. A college/school board co-sponsors a community forum on the local economy and business opportunities, including import substitution.

  14. A college undertakes research with respect to the applicability of high technology and appropriate technology to local business development.

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