Loughborough College Enterprise Education...Delivering Enterprise Education at Loughborough College...
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Loughborough College Enterprise EducationEducation
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Loughborough College Enterprise EducationEducation
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Bringing enterprise education to all students
Enterprise What is
Enterprise?Why Enterprise Education?
Education at Loughborough
CollegeCollege
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What is Enterprise?
• Creative and innovative• Confident and energetic• Risk aware and decisive• Communicative and collaborative
Being Enterprising –the skills needed to
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Being Enterprising –the skills needed to
t id • Communicative and collaborative• Versatile and determined
generate ideasgenerate ideas
Being Being • The enterprising mind‐set to be evident in all that we do and achieve
Entrepreneurial –application of t i kill
Entrepreneurial –application of t i killenterprise skillsenterprise skills
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What is Enterprise Education?
Hytti and O’Gorman (2004)
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Enterprise Education at Loughborough College
Extended to Embedded across Revalidation ofExtended to offering to HE
SportBusiness and Sport HE
pathways
Revalidation of HE Programmes – Opportunities
2014 2016 2018‐2019
2013 2015 2017
Introduced E i
Embedded within B i h
Engineering, IT, Enterprise as an enrichment activity to HE
Business pathways and offered as a module option to
Media, Events and Hospitality
activity to HE Business Pathways
module option to Sport
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Our approach to Enterprise Education
Simulations Workshops Mentoring
Games and Initiative Partnerships –YE LSU L lcompetitions driven YE, LSU, Local businesses.
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Delivering Enterprise Education at Loughborough College
• Enabling students to experience, as far as possible what Gibb (2010) terms “the feel” of entrepreneurship.entrepreneurship.
• Enthuse students to behave entrepreneurially (Bechard and Toulouse, 1998).
• Being outcome focussed to deliver:• a more valuable set of graduates• able to show more initiative• solve more problems• be more creativebe more creative• more flexible • revitalise economies and create wealth and jobs (Handscombe, Rodriquez‐Falcon, and
Patterson (2004)Patterson (2004).
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What makes us successful?
Outcome f d
• We are all measured on the results we d li hi b i dfocussed deliver – this being student outcomes.
Creativity focussed
• Creative skills are essential in all sectors, creating leaders who can innovate.
• Recognising different forms of innovation.Recognising different forms of innovation.
Student • Simulations and competitionsStudent focussed
• Simulations and competitions.• Supporting networks.
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Testimonials
• I believe the Business Enterprise module is aI believe the Business Enterprise module is a brilliant module to have on the BSC degree. I have found it challenging but rewarding at the same time with it providing skills that I can use
The Intrapreneursame time, with it providing skills that I can use in later life and in the workplace.
• I absolutely loved the Business Enterprise d l I h l t d t b ildmodule. I have always wanted to build my own
company and I want it even more now that I have tasted what it’s like to be a real
The Entrepreneur
entrepreneur.
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References
• Gibb A (2010) Concepts into practice: meeting the challenge of development of entrepreneurship educators around• Gibb, A. (2010) Concepts into practice: meeting the challenge of development of entrepreneurship educators around an innovative paradigm. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. Vol. 17 No. 2, pp. 146‐165. DOI 10.1108/13552551111114914
• Handscombe, RD., Rodriguez‐Falcon, E. and Patterson, EA. (2008) Embedding enterprise in science and engineering , , g , , ( ) g p g gdepartments. Education + Training. Vol. 50 No. 7, 2008, pp. 615‐625. DOI 10.1108/00400910810909063
• Hytti, U. and O’Gorman, C. (2004) What Is ‘Enterprise Education'? An Analysis of the Objectives and Methods of Enterprise Education Programmes in Four European Countries. Education + Training. Vol. 46 No. 1, pp. 11‐23. DOI 10 1108/0040091041051818810.1108/00400910410518188