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27/10/2012

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Peter Day talks to the US enterprise teaching young school students to be entrepreneurs

Peter Day finds out about the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship and speaks with two of its’ successful alumni.

The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is a 25 year old initiative started in the USA which now has programmes in India, China and Saudi Arabia.  It goes into schools in deprived areas and teaches entrepreneurship from the age of 12. Peter Day finds out how it works and speaks to two female alumni, one from Calcutta and one from Chicago.

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