30/09/2026
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Partnering with Ultra Education: Bringing a Cross-Nation Lens to Enterprise Education
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Published Sep 30, 2026
As England embarks on yet another shake-up of vocational qualifications, PolicyWISE can announce a new project which looks at enterprise and entrepreneurship education.
We have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Voucher from The Open University (OU), allowing us to work with Ultra Education (UE). They are a social enterprise which delivers enterprise and entrepreneurship education programmes for young people. PolicyWISE will be working with them to apply a UK cross-nation lens to their programmes.
In this project, PolicyWISE and UE will co-evaluate the enterprise education resources that UE team have produced, and the impacts of UE’s delivery models. Following this evaluation, we will analyse nation-specific enterprise education policies and map them against on-the-ground practices made by UE and other organisations across all four UK nations.
By generating structured evidence and insights into UE’s resources and delivery model, this project will help UE better understand which resources, and what kind of delivery models related to enterprise and entrepreneurship education, work best within UE’s own context.
It will also strengthen UE’s capability and capacity to generate, interpret and apply research evidence independently. We also hope to spark wider policy conversations around enterprise and entrepreneurship education, through co-designed briefings and a roundtable.
As part of this collaboration, we also aim to produce a WISE in 5 briefing focused on enterprise education. This will set out the existing enterprise education policies across the four UK nations and Ireland, examine delivery practices, and identify the key conditions that support effective delivery.
Knowledge exchange in this project is a true two-way street. PolicyWISE will bring research capability, analytical frameworks and capability building activities.
