Equality of opportunity and vocational training

Cedefop — European Centre For The Development Of Vocational Training

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Creation and management of enterprises by women: The situation in the United Kingdom: Synthesis report
Vocational training
Enterprise

Sujets

• Emprendedor
• Woman
• Reino Unido
• Vocational education

Informations

• Publié par: CEDEFOP-EUROPEAN-CENTRE-FOR-THE-DEVELOPMENT-OF-VOCATIONAL-TRAINING
• Nombre de lectures: 16
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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g Equality of opportunity and
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§ Creation and management of
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The situation in the United
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j¿ Rapport national Royaume-Uni (FR)
Q Synthesis report (EN)
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V ^ European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training Φ * Equality of opportunity and vocational training
£ Creation and management of enterprises by women
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First edition, Berlin 1988
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/ > The Centre was established by Regulation (EEC) No 337/75
^ ^ of the Council of the European Communities Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
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Luxembourg: Office for Officiai Publications of the European Communities, 1988
ISBN 92-825-8152-7
Cat.: HX-52-88-308-2A-C
Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. n autorisée, sauf à des fins commerciales, moyennant mention de la source.
Printed in Belgium Introduction
This report is the result of a survey conducted throughout all twelve
countries of the European Community to identify the vocational
training needs of women and young girls in order to provide assistance
for the improvement of training provision. The survey was designed
to reach :
1) Organisations and institutions which could provide assistance to
women creating enterprises by offering advice, financial support and/or
vocational training.
2) Women benefitting from such services. Method
A total of one hundred organisations concerned with vocational training,
advice, guidance and funding were contacted by telephone prior to sending
off the questionnaires. Seventy nine of these were deemed capable of
responding appropriately. Out of this number eighteen organisations whose
functions included contact with advice and guidance bodies hitherto
undiscovered were sent an extra copy of the questionnaire to forward to
the appropriate people. In one case (Manpower Services Commission) the
organisation was contacted in order to find out the names and addresses
of the training bodies they used in the course of their vocational training
programmes. This information was apparantly confidential although a
representative promised to forward a list of people who could be helpful.
Copies of the questionnaire to women entrepreneurs whohad benefitted from
vocational training were included in each case. All questionnaires were
circulate d by 25th June 1986.
In the event the response was disappointing to say the least. One day
before the final date of submission all organisations who had not responded
to the questionnaire were contacted as a follow up. The final submission
date being 30th July 1986. By the 7th August 1986 only seventeen responses
had arrived from organisations and three responses from entrepreneurs.
The extreme paucity of response to this survey throws up one or two
salient points.
1) The questionnaire may have been too long and involved for the
organisations to deal with.
2) The possibility of a telephoned questionnaire might have been more efficacious. This was impossible due to the lack of time and funds
available.
3) A more careful survey of vocational training and funding organisations
could have been made and a representative sample identified followed by
a visit. This was impossible due to lack of time and funds.
Nevertheless it must be pointed out that although the response was so
sparse the organisations who did respond covered the country well with
the exception of Northern Ireland and provided a wide range of types
and applications. 4 -
TH E REPORT
1. Organisations Concerned with Advice, Funding and Vocational Training
1.1. Names of Organisations who responded to the questionnaire
1 . Manpower Services Commission
2. Women in Community Enterpise (Community Business Central)
3. ICOM Women's Link-Up Nottingham
4.Msp Leeds
5. Open Business School
6. Project Fullemploy, Clerkenwell
7. Collective Women's Training Society (CWTS)
8. Co-operative Advisory Group (CAG)
9. Industrial Training Service Ltd.
10. Midland Bank PLC
11 . Manchester Co-operative Development Agency (MANCODA)
12. Industrial Development Unit
13. The Industrial Society
14. Wales Co-operative Centre
15. Counterpoint Management Service Ltd.
16. Community Business Central
17. North of Scotland Open Tech
For mailing list and addresses see Appendix (1)
1.2. The geographical distribution of responses
Midlands and North of England 25%
Scotland 25%
Wales 12.5
London and Home Counties 37.577% were concerned with the more general framework of information,
advice and guidance although this was not necessarily their only function.
22%o concerned themselves with financial help and vocational training
9%ds solely with financial help
68% concerned themselves with advice, guidance and vocational training
Total numbers of entrepreneurs who benefitted from vocational training
were 58968 although statistics were given as a rough estimate in some
cases. Out of this number 59.7% were women entrepreneurs.
1.2. Funding
Public Money 72.7%
Private Funds 31.8
Self Funding 22.7%
Only one organisation funded itself solely from its own resources (Counterpoint
Management Services). In their case payment was on a sliding scale by
negotiation according to circumstances, fees ranging from £80 to £250 per
day per tutor.
1.3. Range of Activities
National 45%
Local 36.3
Regional 31.8
International 18% specifically third world countries and Europe
The following qualities, skills and conditions were important in decending
order (average figures). Qualities Common sense 1)
2) Determination
3) Confidence
4) Optimism
5) Sense of humour
6) Creativity
7) Ambition
Leadership 8)
Audacity 9)
Skills Marketing 1)
2) Forward Planning
3) Personal Organisation
4) Finance
Knowledge of Production Techniques 5)
Accounting 6)
New Technology 7)
Conditions : to have -
Benefitted from vocational training .1)
Entrepreneurial flair
An innovative idea 2)
3) A trade
4) No other alternative
Money
5) Professional experience
6) A high level of education
7) To take over a family business
Other qualities include patience
persistence
a co-operative approach
flexibilit y
opportunity realisation
self reliance