Articles in the Enterprise
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2008-10-07
Enterprise Week 2008 - a national celebration of enterprise
Enterprise Week 2008 will run 17-23 November. Events and activities are planned for the whole of the UK, aimed at unlocking the UK's enterprise potential and inspiring people to have ideas and make them happen.
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2008-08-05
Discussion lists - time to review your membership?
More than 2,700 messages were sent through AGCAS's discussion lists in the year ending July 2008. The busiest by far was AGCAS-servicelink, with over 1,500 subscribers sending or receiving over 600 messages, but many more specialist lists were also very well used.
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2008-06-06
'Radical changes ahead for careers services' NICEC report
A new report concludes that radical changes already taking place in some institutions will have significant implications for the roles and continuing professional development of higher education careers staff.
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2008-04-22
NCGE services for careers community
Does the AGCAS Enterprise Community leave you wanting even more on this topic? Did you know that the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) now produces a blog, a news feed and an intelligence bulletin for its careers community?
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2008-03-27
Enterprise in AGCAS - opportunity to get involved
AGCAS is planning a new task group on entrepreneurship and is seeking expressions of interest from members who would like to become involved. If you are involved in entrepreneurial initiatives within your own service or work with groups most likely to become self employed such as art and design students or have other relevant interests and experience, the group could be for you.
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2008-03-10
New resource for would-be social entrepreneurs
The Social Enterprise Toolkit supports staff working with would-be social entrepreneurs and reflects the growing importance of social entrepreneurship in the UK economy.
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2007-11-20
Social Entrepreneurship at the University of York
Entrepreneurial individuals are not always motivated by the prospect of becoming rich. Indeed, the University of York has found that the majority of the students coming into the Careers Service with ideas for potential ventures are actually seeking to establish social enterprises rather than commercial ones. The government's new Office of the Third Sector says social enterprises "are businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners." This means that the social entrepreneur has to embody all the traits of the commercial entrepreneur, principally the ability and drive to pull together the resources to make something happen; but also has to possess a strong motivation to make a positive difference.
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2007-11-19
Enterprise at Swansea
Corina Edwards, Entrepreneurship Development Officer at Swansea University, is responsible for bringing together the range of activities on offer to students, graduates and staff at the university, as well as working with local employers and entrepreneurs. Here she describes how she and colleagues help students develop a more entrepreneurial approach to their working life.
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2007-11-19
Award for Lancaster
In 2006, the Centre for Employability, Enterprise and Careers at Lancaster University (CEEC) saw its endeavours in enterprise and entrepreneurship provision recognised by winning the first ever AGCAS Award for Excellence in Enterprise (sponsored by NCGE). Read Director of CEEC, Paul Blackmore's account of how they did it.
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2007-11-19
Student Entrepreneurship – will the Brown era be Golden in East Anglia?
The University of East Anglia's knowledge transfer activities receive significant funding from the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) programme. Owned by the DTI (until the recent re-shuffle in Government gave birth to the new Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills) HEIF funding is what has enabled the UEA to get serious about the promotion of entrepreneurship as a genuine alternative career path over the years. Firstly, however, it may be worth spending a moment thinking about just a few of the reasons why this might be a good thing.