Training and Development in the Education Sector
Schools and colleges are not so dissimilar to commercial-based businesses. There are customers, stakeholders, authorities, targets and budgets managed.
Of course, the purpose is different but so are the purposes of a number of different businesses. Working at Business Link in the early 2000s three of the Expressions team would work with organisations of all shapes, sizes and categories including schools.
Specifically advising and assessing against the national Investors in People standard there was much to share between education and business and both denominations gained mutual benefits.