Enterprise Scholars
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Enterprise Scholars Summer Course
Explore how ideas become opportunities, discover how businesses respond to challenges and develop confidence solving problems with Atlas Summer Courses. Our Enterprise Scholars summer course, designed for students aged 12–14, gives students the opportunity to explore business and entrepreneurship while developing their ability to think creatively and make reasoned decisions.
Through interactive small-group lessons, students are encouraged to explore ideas, consider different approaches and think about how businesses and entrepreneurs identify opportunities and respond to real-world problems.
What's Included?
Your residential Enterprise Scholars summer course includes academic teaching, accommodation, meals and a certificate on completion, alongside the activities and experiences included within your chosen programme.
What Is Enterprise Scholars?
Enterprise Scholars introduces students to the ideas behind business, entrepreneurship and developing opportunities.
Enterprise involves recognising problems or needs and thinking about how they could be addressed. This can involve developing an idea for a product or service, considering who it could help and evaluating what might make that idea successful.
Studying enterprise also involves decision-making. Businesses and entrepreneurs frequently need to consider different options, respond to changing circumstances and communicate their ideas convincingly.
An Enterprise Scholars summer course gives students the opportunity to explore these ideas in an age-appropriate academic environment while developing greater confidence in their own problem-solving and decision-making.
What Will Students Explore on the Enterprise Scholars Course?
There is no prescribed syllabus that every student follows. Atlas Summer Courses tutors create their own syllabi, drawing on their expertise while taking the interests, abilities and learning needs of their students into account.
Depending on the tutor and group, students could explore different ideas connected with business, entrepreneurship, innovation and decision-making.
They might consider questions such as:
- How do entrepreneurs identify opportunities?
- What makes a business idea effective?
- Why is understanding customers important?
- How can businesses respond to problems and changing circumstances?
- What role does creativity play in entrepreneurship?
- How can an idea be communicated convincingly?
The exact content will vary depending on the expertise of the individual tutor and the interests of the group.
Any topics or syllabi shown on our website are examples only and should not be taken as a guarantee of exactly what students will study.
How Students Learn
Our Scholars courses are designed to make learning engaging, interactive and appropriately challenging for students aged 12–14.
12 hours of small-group lessons
Across the one-week programme, students take part in structured small-group classes. Lessons are designed to encourage students to think actively and engage with the subject, with tutors involving everyone and fostering curiosity and enthusiasm for learning.
Each lesson follows a process of review, learning and application, giving students opportunities to revisit ideas, develop their understanding and then apply what they have learned.
Within Enterprise Scholars, this could involve discussing business ideas, considering different approaches to a problem and applying new concepts through age-appropriate activities. The precise approach will depend on the tutor, their expertise and the interests of the group.
The aim is to create an interactive environment in which students can participate actively, ask questions and develop greater confidence exploring business and entrepreneurial ideas.
Who Is Enterprise Scholars For?
Our Enterprise Scholars summer course for 12–14-year-olds is designed for students who are curious about business, entrepreneurship and how ideas can be developed into opportunities.
Students don't need previous knowledge of business or entrepreneurship. The course may particularly appeal to those who enjoy developing ideas, solving problems, making decisions or thinking about how products, services and businesses could be improved.
Students will be encouraged to develop transferable skills including creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, collaboration and independent learning.
Learn from Expert Tutors
Atlas Summer Courses tutors are experienced educators and subject specialists active across academia, industry and education.
They bring their own expertise and interests into their teaching and have the freedom to shape their syllabus around both their specialism and the students in their group. This allows each Enterprise Scholars summer course to explore different business and entrepreneurial ideas while providing an appropriate level of academic challenge.
Tutors are confirmed closer to the summer, so profiles on our website are examples of tutors who have previously worked with us rather than confirmation of who will teach a particular course.
What Can Students Gain from Enterprise Scholars?
Enterprise Scholars gives students the opportunity to explore business and entrepreneurship beyond their usual studies while developing skills that can support future academic learning.
Students can practise identifying problems, considering different solutions, making reasoned decisions and communicating their ideas while developing greater confidence approaching unfamiliar challenges.
These skills can support future learning across subjects such as business, economics, entrepreneurship, marketing and other related disciplines.
Most importantly, an Enterprise Scholars summer course gives students the opportunity to explore their interest in enterprise and discover how creative ideas and analytical thinking can be combined to approach real-world problems.
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FAQs about Our Summer Courses
No. You don't usually need to have studied your chosen subject before joining an Atlas Summer Courses summer course. Courses are designed for the relevant age group, and tutors can adapt their approach to the abilities, interests and experience of the students in their group.
There is no fixed curriculum that every student follows. Our tutors create their own syllabi based on their academic expertise and the interests and learning needs of their students.
This means the exact topics can vary between courses and years. Any syllabus or topics shown on our website are examples from previous courses and shouldn't be taken as a guarantee of exactly what you'll study.
Teaching depends on your age group. Students aged 9–12 and Scholars aged 12–14 learn through structured, interactive small-group classes. Students aged 13–15 combine small-group seminars with private study, while students aged 16–17 and 18–24 experience seminars, tutorials and independent study.
Across our programmes, teaching is designed to encourage active participation, questioning and independent thinking rather than simply listening to lectures.
Your course includes your academic programme, accommodation, meals and a certificate on completion, alongside the activities and experiences included within your programme.
What's included can vary depending on the programme, age group and package you choose, so we recommend checking the individual course details for the full inclusions before applying.
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