The Role and Value of the Educator in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Educator: Some Reflections from a Workshop There have been a number of recent publications, such as the QAA guidelines on enterprise and entrepreneurship education and the EntreComp framework, which provide us, as educators, with useful resources for understanding the enterprise journey of a student […]

Anglia Ruskin University, an IOEE Centre of Excellence, has won a prestigious national prize for entrepreneurship at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards, known as “the Oscars of Great British business”. Anglia Ruskin saw off competition from the University of Sheffield, Liverpool John Moores University, Royal Agricultural University and London South Bank University to win […]

A new enterprise programme designed to give students the commercial edge has been given the thumbs up by trainee hairdressers. Get the Idea, the learning programme the IOEE has developed in collaboration with global hair stylists TONI&GUY, was piloted at City of Wolverhampton College. ‘Get the Idea’ is an innovative new programme designed to help […]

Enterprising Learner of the Year award finalist, Martina Eco, recently attended our Celebrating Enterprise 2016 Awards event in the House of Lords. We were fascinated to know more about how London South Bank University is helping the student entrepreneur and multilinguist to ensure that, when it comes to her business plan, nothing is lost in […]

LSBU named Entrepreneurial University of the Year IOEE Centre of Excellence, London South Bank University (LSBU), has been awarded the Entrepreneurial University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards. The accolade celebrates the entrepreneurial support offered to students, graduates, staff and the local community led by LSBU’s Research, Enterprise and Innovation team, based […]

Richard and Clare Talbot-Jones, who run Talbot Jones Risk Solutions, recently attended our Celebrating Enterprise 2016 Awards event in the House of Lords. In this month’s blog, Clare tells us about how our award winners and finalists inspired her. “Seize every opportunity- you never know where it might lead”, Richard advised in his interim appraisal […]

Enhancing the student experience in FE through embedded enterprise Wednesday December 7th 2016, 10am to 4pm Barnsley College, Conference Room, Old Mill Lane Site, Barnsley, S70 2AX There is still time to register to attend this EEUK Enterprise Exchange event generously hosted by Barnsley College. The event will be of interest to those working in […]

In the UK it has been found that entrepreneurs work an average of 52 hours a week – that’s a figure 63% longer than the average employee. While you may enjoy the hard graft and see it as a short-term solution to long-term success, in fact there is evidence to suggest that burning the candle […]

Last year, as part of the BBA IOEE mentoring programme, University of Worcester postgraduate student and aspiring entrepreneur Sarah Mitton was matched up with Tim Newman, a Commercial Banking Relationship Director at Lloyds Banking Group. We caught up with them both to find out more. A few years ago Sarah Mitton was working for UnLtd, […]