Teenage summer camps for would-be entrepreneurs

Gordon Brown is backing a scheme to develop summer camps for budding teenage entrepreneurs, in an attempt to stimulate business culture and the kind of young people who do not thrive at school.

The blueprint being worked on in Whitehall is the fruit of a growing awareness that work experience often fails young people, and that pilot programmes that involve local businesses in "enterprise education" do better.

Sir Alan Sugar's BBC2 hit The Apprentice is thought to have galvanised the chancellor, whose personal brand of high-minded austerity is combined with the New Labour conviction that wealth must first be created before it can be spent as taxes.

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