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Loughborough College Enterprise EducationEducation
Loughborough College Enterprise EducationEducation
Bringing enterprise education to all students
Enterprise What is
Enterprise?Why Enterprise Education?
Education at Loughborough
CollegeCollege
What is Enterprise?
• Creative and innovative• Confident and energetic• Risk aware and decisive• Communicative and collaborative
Being Enterprising –the skills needed to
t id
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
What is Enterprise Education?
Hytti and O’Gorman (2004)
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
Our approach to Enterprise Education
Simulations Workshops Mentoring
Games and Initiative Partnerships –YE LSU L lcompetitions driven YE, LSU, Local businesses.
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).
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.
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.
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