Chesterfield College student lands Thailand business trip

This week a young entrepreneur from the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy course at Chesterfield College was invited to speak at a business seminar taking place in Bangkok, Thailand.

Scott Levers, aged 18, landed the opportunity, along with one other UK student from Leicester, to present to 150 directors and senior practitioners, teachers and students from Thai vocational colleges following his successful work in a local business and his approach to developing his entrepreneurial skills.

Organised jointly by the British Council Thailand and the Office of Vocational Education, the seminar was designed to help share best practice about developing, encouraging and enabling entrepreneurial attitudes, skills and knowledge.

Before Scott flew off to Thailand he told Chesterfield College how the course and his experiences working in a developing wholesale jewellery business creating a sales and marketing database was a real bonus to help him develop his business acumen.

He said: “Doing a vocational course like the one the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy offers allows you to test your own ideas and gives you the ability to try out the theory in a practical situation. Learning in this way helps you to develop logic and reasoning which is so important in business.

“It’s a huge honour to be asked to go to Thailand. I am looking forward to learning more about doing business in different cultures from the Thai students and bringing back new ideas. I hope that this experience will help me during the rest of my course and in my business career.”