East Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce Business Masterclass

Tonight I took 4 pupils from my Higher Business Management class to the above event in a hotel in Giffnock. The ERCC invite schools from around East Renfrewshire and we attended tonights session. The evening consisted of the following:

6.00pm-6.30pm Tea & coffee

6.30pm - 7.00pm Speed networking

7.00pm-7.30pm Buffet supper

7.30pm-8.00pm Main Speaker

8.00pm-8.30pm Question and answer session

The main speaker was from MediaCo UK Ltd on the subject of using the internet to raise the profile of your business. The pupils were able to relate what we had studied in Marketing during the last month to what the main speaker was talking about. They also had the opportunity to speak to someone from Business Gateway on how businesses could get support to start a business and someone from the voluntary sector on how they have been impacted on by the global downturn.

This was the first time pupils had been to this and all felt it was a really worthwhile event - I think they liked the fact that they could see what we discussed in class was not an abstract concept but real life. All of them have signed up for the next Business Masterclass and the Chairman of the ERCC commented that they were the first school to go up and thank the main speaker and the ERCC without prompting from their teacher.