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Media ReleaseSIX VICTORIAN SCHOOLS WIN ENTERPRISING COMMUNITIES' AWARDS K1803 15 March 1999 The Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Dr David Kemp today presented the 1998 Enterprising Communities’ Award certificates to six Victorian schools. The six award winning schools are: Kilvington Girls Grammar School, Bellarine Secondary College, St Liborius School, Melton Secondary College, Toora Primary School and Wooragee Rural School. They were among twenty-seven national winners of the Enterprising Communities’ Award competition, a project funded under the Commonwealth’s Enterprise Education in Schools (EES) initiative. This initiative supports a range of activities and resources for Australian primary and secondary school communities to create an enterprising learning culture within schools. The Enterprising Communities’ Awards competition requires schools to become involved with their local communities to encourage the development of entrepreneurial skills in school students. Such enterprising community partnerships strengthen local communities and make school education and curriculum options more relevant to our young people. "I congratulate small businesses, volunteer agencies, community members, parents and teachers for enthusiastically seizing the opportunity presented by the Awards to work with young people to cultivate enterprising attitudes and qualities," said Dr Kemp. "These awards not only encourage the development of business and entrepreneurial skills, but also allow students to give back something to their community while learning skills that will help them fully participate in life beyond their school years. "The Awards have generated considerable enthusiasm among schools as evidenced by over four hundred entries for the competition and I am pleased to announce today that the Federal Government will be contributing funding up to $100,000 to ensure that the competition can again take place in 1999," said Dr Kemp. Dr Kemp congratulated the sixty-seven finalists from across Australia and the twenty-seven winners for setting such high standards of community based enterprising partnerships.
Media contact: Samantha Herron 0412 639 754 or 02 6277 7460
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