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BUSINESS MINISTER TO PAY VISIT TO ENTERPRISING BRIGHTON ACADEMY
Business and Enterprise Minister Mark Prisk is due to visit a Brighton school on Thursday. Mr Prisk, the Conservative MP for Hertford and Stortford, has been invited to the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy in Falmer.
He will meet staff and students at the academy as well as principal Philomena Hogg and Aldridge Foundation chief executive Honor Wilson-Fletcher. The foundation sponsors the £28 million academy which specialises in entrepreneurship.
Mr Prisk is to be given a tour of the newly opened building including the “Brighton Creates” business centre, which is at the heart of the academy. His tour comes shortly after Honor Wilson-Fletcher spoke on ‘Wake Up To Money’ on BBC Radio Five Live and the Today programme on Radio Four, criticising the Young Apprentice.
She said: “Many parents hear words like entrepreneurial and risk and don’t know how to help children develop these qualities. Unfortunately programmes such as Young Apprentice or Dragons’ Den may give the impression that successful entrepreneurs are ruthless wheeler-dealers, simply in it for personal enrichment, and with little desire to work as a team, when the reality is quite different.”






