Newbury College students showcase business acumen

Winners of the West Berkshire Champions of Enterprise.

A TEAM of Newbury College students showed their business acumen recently by winning the West Berkshire finals of Champions of Enterprise.

The programme, run in partnership with the Education Business Partnership, enabled the student teams to compete against each other in a two-day contest.

The winning team, made up of business students Ollie Hicks and Joshua Carter, IT student Daniel Hicks and art and design student Ashleigh Cook, competed against schools at the local finals at The Regency Park Hotel on December 8.

The event saw them review and analyse business ventures with the support of local entrepreneurs before judges decided which business to invest in.

Course leader for business studies, Peter Doyle, who helped organise the programme, said: “Thank you to the Education Business Partnership for organising the event.

“It’s been a fantastic way to introduce the students to the business world – they have all learnt a lot during the programme.

“The students put a lot of time and effort into their business idea and are delighted to have won.”

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