Raising the Bar on
Student Entrepreneurship
Wednesday 25th March 2015
Gareth Trainer, Rebecca Fisher,
Alecia Dunn, Dawn Weatherston
and Roland Glancy
Session Aims
 To provide an overview of student
entrepreneurship agenda at Newcastle
University
 To illustrate examples of enterprise and
entrepreneurship education across the
faculties
 To introduce colleagues supporting staff and
students in the faculties
 To demonstrate impact of agenda through a
graduate success story
What? - Institutional Aims
 Embed entrepreneurial development at the
heart of the student experience so that:
– every student considers it as viable a career
choice as graduate employment,
– all have the opportunity to develop the skills,
knowledge and networks to make a success of
their own venture now or in the future,
– and the University becomes known as the best
place to go to develop your entrepreneurial
potential.
Definitions: QAA 2012
 Enterprise Education: the process of equipping
students with an enhanced capacity to generate
ideas and the skills to make them happen.
 Entrepreneurship Education: equips students
with the additional knowledge, attributes and
capabilities required to apply these abilities in the
context of setting up a new venture or business.
 Entrepreneurial Effectiveness: the ability to
function effectively as an entrepreneur or in an
entrepreneurial capacity.
Why? - Key Employability Drivers
 Graduate employers find entrepreneurial experience
desirable
– enterprise skills represented in Graduate Skills Framework
 Graduate labour market changing creating increasing
likelihood of free-lance, portfolio and self-employed
periods
– introduction of preparedness question to DLHE
 Entrepreneurial graduates creating work experience
and employment opportunities for enterprising and
entrepreneurial students
– the graduate employers of the future
How? - Working with You
 Partnership: Significant link between HEI experience and
business success as well as the subject studied and type of
business started (HEFCE 2015)
 EDOs: Entrepreneurial Development Officers
 Co-curricular: Experiment with discipline specific approaches
 Embedded: Reinforce GSF by introducing entrepreneurial
context to exiting modules
 Explicit: Co-development of new modules to address
enterprise, innovation and entrepreneurship in subject context
 Cross-Faculty: Providing access to centrally delivered
modules
 Educator Events: Supporting the professional development
of staff engaging with the agenda
Co-curricular
Modern
languages
Modules
Arts, Business and
Creativity
HASS
Programmes
Social Science
PGRs
Learning, Teaching and Student
Experience:
- Educator development
workshops/consultancy (internal
and external)
- Support for schools (9/10 active to
varying extents)
- Teaching initiatives groups
- One-to-one student coaching
- Summer Schools & OIP
Teaching & Assessment:
- Credit-bearing enterprise module
options (block and linear) for all
levels (subject to programme regs)
- SAgE context and
engagement with SAgE
industry
Research:
- Published papers/ conference
contributions
- Entrepreneurship as a method of
teaching
- Evaluation and dissemination
PGRs and Staff Researchers:
- IP sessions
- Research staff coaching and training
- Competitions and enterprise training
programmes (e.g. ACTION)
- Enterprise Scholarships
- PGRDP sessions
Other:
- Founderships (pre-accelerator)
- Entrepreneurship MOOC
For more information contact: katie.wray@ncl.ac.uk
SAgE
FMS
 Business for the Bioscientist Module &
Biomedical Sciences with Business (BSc)
 Outcomes
– Curriculum
– Future research preparation
– Increased Employability
– Preparedness for Self-Employment
 Opportunities
NCL2100: Developing Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employability
Module leader:
Kellie ForbesSimpson
Kellie.forbessimpson@ncl.ac.uk
Graduate Impact
Roland Glancy
Managing Director and Founder
Q&A
QAA 2012: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education
% of Total Student Population
2014/15 Q2
Overall
5.1
SAgE
6.1
FMS
3.5
HaSS
5.3
UG
4.5
PG
6.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Individual School
Business School
326
Mechanical and Systems Engineering
197
Dental Sciences
87
Arts and Cultures
72
Computing Science
72
Biomedical Sciences
60
Modern Languages
41
Civil Engineering and Geosciences
38
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
35
HaSS Faculty Office (Combined Studies)
35
Unknown
Others
17
271