Numbers add up for college entrepreneurs; SchoolOfTheWeek KINGS HEATH BOYS' MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING COLLEGE.Byline: Tony Collins AGROUP of pupils at a Birmingham boys' school have proved they have what it takes to succeed in the competitive world of business. A team from King's Heath Boys' Mathematics and Computing College Mathematics and Computing Colleges were introduced in England in 1995 as part of the Government's Specialist Schools Programme which was designed to raise standards in secondary education. is all smiles after winning the National Enterprise Game Challenge. The competition, which saw the Kings Heath Kings Heath is a suburb of Birmingham, England, three miles south of the city centre. It is the next 'village' south from Moseley on the Alcester Road. The central shopping area runs along the High Street and Alcester Road, and the shops include branches of national chain stores, pupils lift a trophy and receive a giant pounds 3,000 cheque, has been set up by Mosaic, an organisation initially founded by The Prince of Wales Prince of Wales switches places with his double, poor boy Tom Canty. [Am. Lit.: The Prince and the Pauper] See : Doubles to support young Muslims and their peers in deprived areas. The enterprise game challenge is aimed at promoting entrepreneurship in the communities it serves. Kings Heath Boys' winning Year 10 team of Khalil Rajbhai, Ifa Ali Zubair, Umar Manzoor, Aamir Hussain, Uzeffa Shah and Shabber Mehndi Mehndi (or Hina) is the application of henna (Hindustani: हेना- حنا- urdu) as a temporary form of skin decoration, most popular in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Somaliland as well as expatriate communities from these were treated to a sightseeing tour of London after being named as the victors. Under the business name 0121 Enterprise, they were judged on how much gross profit they could make for a fictitious company. Assistant head teacher Jason John said: "We were delighted when we learnt they had won. They were up against other finalists from as far afield as London and Bradford. We entered about 30 boys from an ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. class in groups of five. The first couple of rounds were done online, and were based around market research, cash-flow, sales revenue, and gross profit. One of the teams made it to the final alongside four other schools from across the country who all achieved the best scores." The cheque was presented to Kings Heath Boys by Dr Waqar Azmi OBE, a former chief adviser to the government. CAPTION(S): IT lessons: Rayel Coley coley Noun Brit an edible fish with white or grey flesh [perhaps from coalfish] Laing and Yaser Ammora. Reading: Sohail Amir, Ross Winspur and Tommy Walker. Business brains: Aamir Hussain, Umair Manzoor, Isa Ali Zubair, Khalil Rajbhai, Uzeffa Shah and Shabber Akbar from Kings Heath Boys School. |
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