The Schools-College Challenge, run by vocational skills organisation UK Skills, involved 14- and 15-year-olds at three colleges designing and delivering community projects.
This included students in west London providing business consultancy such as market research and advertising to a shop at their college run by students with learning difficulties.
The young people designed the projects themselves and were allocated a sum of money to spend on them.
Jenny Shackleton, development consultant for UK Skills, said the organisation was seeking funding to make the scheme mainstream within college provision across England. One possibility is linking it to specialist diplomas within the reformed system of 14-19 learning, set to be rolled out from 2008.
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