COMPANY PROGRAMME

The "after-school" company program is very popular for many students and is delivered outside of normal school hours. This consists of the students forming a student-run corporation, where a board of directors is elected and the company creates a business plan. Supervision of the company is given under the direction of a volunteer businessperson. After fifteen weeks, the company completes a full business cycle – from formation to liquidation. The profit made (if any) is divided among the existing students.

This after-school program is intended to give young people the skills they needed to succeed in a business environment once they have entered the workforce. New additions to the after-school endeavors are:

·        The Hewlette Packard Global Business Challenge (HPGBC) -  The HPGBC is an internet based competition between teams from all over the world, making strategic decisions as it relates to their virtual company's operations.

·        Job Shadow workplace internships - The job shadow effort is to enable students to get "hands on experience" in viewing and functioning in the working environment of a business.

To find out more information about the company programme from JA Worldwide please click here.

To read the latest news and what has happened in previous years, please take a look at our
What’s New Company Programme Page.

SCHOOL’S PROGRAMME

Our in school courses last for between ten and fifteen weeks in school hours, and focus on key areas of business knowledge and economic skills and understanding as well as an essay competition and includes the following:
 

1)       Economics of Staying in School

2)       Personal Economics

3)       Enterprise in Action

4)       JA Success skills

5)       Our Community.

To read more detailed information about the JA Worldwide programme click here for elementary school, middle school and high school.

Each school has a co-ordinator who is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of the programme throughout the year. For this year the overall co-ordinator is Ms Esther Gregory, and the individual schools coordinators are:

LIST OF CO-ORDINATORS NEEDED HERE

To read the latest news and what has happened in previous years, please take a look at our
What’s New Schools Programme Page.