Exam results ‘aren’t everything’ for future entrepreneurs, says Damian Hinds

Some businesspeople said understanding the basics of finance would help young people. Photograph: Caiaimage/Paul Bradbury/GettyGood exam results are no guarantee of future success, the education secretary, Damian Hinds, has said, arguing that “drive and tenacity” and a greater tolerance for failure can encourage young people to be more entrepreneurial. Hinds’s comments came in an interview with the Guardian after he hosted a roundtable with young entrepreneurs, who told him stu