Putting entrepreneurship
in to practice within VET
institutions
Chris McLean
Chris McLean
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Further Education for the last 28 years
North Hertfordshire College for eleven years
Deputy Principal Curriculum & Quality
Strategic responsibility for:
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Teaching & Learning
Quality & Standards
Information Technology and eLearning
Additional Learning Support
Information Services
Marketing & Customer Services
• Gazelle Development Support
• Education Performance Solutions
• 5 Founder Colleges
• Over £2 million in 2
years to innovate and
develop the workforce
• 15 colleges joined in to
form Gazelle Colleges
Group
• A unique edge in the
entrepreneurial college
development
• A driver for co-creation
Our Ethos
An entrepreneurial college is a college where the
ethos, values and culture of learning are
distinctively geared towards the task of business
formation and growth, wealth creation and
employment outcomes.
The Starting Point - Entrepreneurial Culture
• Include ‘entrepreneurial’ as one of your values
• Set high expectations for whole organisation
change
• Create a vision and relentlessly pursue it
• Create space from the day job for this to happen
• Take ‘calculated’ risks
• Recognise action trumps everything
What do you see?
What do local employers see?
“SCRUFFY”
Expert Students
and staff
Thinking
• Critical Thinking &
Problem Solving for Work
• Smarter Working Practices
Entrepreneurial
• Professional
Standards &
Commercial
Awareness
• Curiosity & Creativity
for Work
Social
• Accountability &
Collaboration for
Work
• Corporate & Social
Responsibility
Teaching & Learning System
High quality IAG
6 Week
plan, do,
review
Employer
links,
opportunity
to earn while
learning
Student
Centred,
Active &
Destination
Driven
Flipped
Learning
Project Based
•Events &
activities
•Stretch &
challenge
•Integrated
assessment
High quality IAG
Progression
to Intended
Destination
Plan – Do – Review (~6 week cycle)
Review
Weeks 2-5:
‘Do’
Outcome Calendar
Week 1:
‘Plan & Prepare’
Review
Outcome Calendar
Week 6:
‘Review’
Learning Opportunities
Game
Video Quiz
Quality
Assured
Team
web
Research
Debate
Social media
Lecture
Discuss and agree
group outcomes
& delivery options
(project plan)
Consolidate
Learning
Online Resources
Role play
Initial knowledge
delivery
Practical
External
speaker
Simulation
Demonstration
Wiki
Discuss and agree
personalised goals,
resources
and deliverables
PDP
Group & peer review
Self-assessment (reflection)
Strategic Tutoring
PDP
Personal review
Target review
Learning Events & Calendars
External Calendar
MADE
NYC Video
Conference
CCN VLE
M. Maker
Pantrepreneur
Student Services & Cross College Calendar
Around the
World
BtG
Big Student
Takeover
WoW
Academy Calendar
Dragons Den
Big Bang
Venice
Royal Opera
House
Disney
Fund Raising
Guest
Speaker
Department Calendar
Employer
Work Exp.
Project 1
Citizenship
Project 2
• Photography & graphic design project
involving new public house leases
• Interaction with employers on real
project briefs
Sales and distribution team wanted for a nationwide
music newspaper
Closing techniques and sales confidence
• Catering students showcasing skills & shooting
footage for a worldwide broadcast TV channel
• Confidence in front of the camera
Dual delivery partner for broadcast qual.
Live studio experience on an national station
Student takeover cross academy competition
to develop and deliver 16-18 summer
recruitment campaign
Paid three month internship for two winning
students in an award winning environment
One 1 full time position offered
Cross academy involvement to enhance patient experience on a weekly basis
Empathy and communication skills
National media coverage
Stevenage Homes
Storyboard and video shoot of service users
Communication skills and deadline experience
www.studentcrew.nhc.ac.uk
LE 4
LE 6
LE 7
LE 5
Plan, Do &
Review
LE 9
Course Review
Easter
Plan, Do
& Review
1
Assessment Week - Study Coach/Learning Mentor led
Learning Event 3
Plan, Do &
Review
6
Course Review
LE 2
1
Assessment Week - Study Coach/Learning Mentor led
Plan, Do
&
Review
5
7
Course Review
Xmas
LE 1
1
Course Review
Weeks 2
Induction
Project
4
Assessment Week - Study Coach/Learning Mentor led
Calendar - 34 Student Weeks
LE 11
LE 10
Learning Event 12
Learning Event 8
Induction 2 weeks
Plan, Do & Review 29 weeks
Assessment & Student Review 3 weeks + days
Course Review 8 days
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Plan, Do
&
Review
Personal Development Passport
Learning Design
A comprehensive, data-informed and
personalised individual personal
development plan supporting the
development of expert student skills,
course progress and destination
management
Team based, collaborative learning
design and assessment system giving
staff and students access to course plans
promoting creativity collaboration and
sharing of good practice
Learning
Design
PDP
PLE
Technology Ecosystem
Personal Learning Environment
The heart of the student experience, enabling
students to take control of and manage their
own learning, using collaboration and
communication tools, along with access to
resources mapped to the learning project
The Really Smart Bit
Learning
Design
Personal
Learning
Environment
Personal
Development
Passport
Learning Design, Delivery & Support seamlessly
working together and interoperable
New roles & Strategic Tutoring
Three Horizons
Horizon 3
Staff and student delight
Create viable options
Horizon 2
Build emerging
businesses
Horizon 1
Extend and defend
core businesses
Innovation following
the integration of
service areas
Adaptation of staff
structures to
introduce
commercialisation
Time
Resilience from true
Learning Company
organisation
Entrepreneurial
students entering the
industrial world
Learning Company
Commercial entities, limited by guarantee,
charitable aim of advancing education
College
Income
Learning
Delivery
Desirable
Mandatory
Expert
Student
Skills
Assessment
Outcomes
Student
Pay
Learning
Company
The Learning Company Cluster
Dell
HP
HR
IT
Services
Microsoft
Viglen
Marketing
LEP &
UKCES
The IT
Store
Business
Chambers
of
Commerce
Commercial Partners
Industry
Service Areas
Curriculum Areas
ICT
Confederation
of British
Industries
Enterprise
iMedia
Garage, valeting
& smart repair
Radio Station
Media Company
Event
Management
Hair & Beauty
Salon
College Catering
Building Services
Spa
Combined experience of working and accelerated learning
Real world learning, developing ‘expert student skills’
An opportunity to earn while they learn
Establish a different type of relationship with employers
Enhancement of CV & destination outcomes
Franchise ‘a business in a box’
The Gazelle Babson Leadership Programme
Gazelle rejects existing models of leadership
that see planning as a largely predictable
activity
To build entrepreneurial college you need to
think and act entrepreneurially
Entrepreneurship is a practice and the
leadership programme enables leaders to
practice entrepreneurship
The Gateway Module
• Provides an introduction to entrepreneurial thought
and action
• Explores tools and techniques for leaders to develop
the entrepreneurial college
• The Babson methodology is at the leading edge
• promotes smart action ("act quickly with the means at
hand") as the foundation of innovation and learning
• reframes risk as "a measure of upside and
opportunity"
• produces ideas and plans for implementation in
colleges
The Gazelle Babson Leadership Programme
Further information, membership
details or a visit to our colleges?
Rifaat Foufa Rfoufa@thegazellegroup.com
Chris McLean cmclean@nhc.ac.uk