…-degreeapprenticeship-shaped-me-into-the-professional-i-am-today o https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/uni-of-herts-apprenticeships-recoverycoronavirus-7314590 o https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/domino-printing-a-greatworkplace-9196800/ WINNERS: Staff at the University of Greenwich Schools of Science and Engineering – for transforming the sports hall on campus into a laboratory to deliver practical learning. The Covid pandemic has pose…
…the students’ business proposals, and more details on the investors can be found on our blog. Data on graduate start-ups taken from HE Business and Community Interaction Survey 2015/16 by HESA: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/hebci-2015-16 For press enquiries please contact Joshua Hastings, Communications Officer: joshua@www.unialliance.ac.uk / 020 7839 2757…
…iness and innovation. Support is available, although this is mostly rather generic. Policy-makers, the support system and the wider ecosystem of social enterprises must recognise this need and focus their resources and their actions to help social enterprises to address this challenging situation and develop the appropriate skills. Using innovation to support the development of trading activity and/or their social/environmental aims The majority o…
…tailoring firms. Discover how Texmo is modernising the tailoring industry online: texmo.co.uk The Maker’s Guild Ming Wu, Sam Asiri – University of Portsmouth With access to a range of traditional machinery and digital fabrication services, the Maker’s Guild provides dedicated and flexible, creative work spaces to artists, designers, hobbyists and the wider community. The initiative carries out workshops offering tailored creative engagement sessi…
…LJMU PhD student Matthew‘s business idea supports children to become their best selves – to develop into fitter, healthier and happier individuals. Throughout his research, Matthew has worked alongside school educators and pupils to uncover new ways to increase children’s activity levels and reduce sedentary behaviours. Coachoom is an online school-based health and wellbeing resource which help teachers with their classroom management strategies,…
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…truism that money doesn’t buy happiness, it has been shown that money can buy experiences (like holidays, music concerts, nights out), which in turn can promote happiness. Interestingly, however, it has recently been shown that it is not the experiences per se that promote happiness, but the fact that we are able to share the experiences with others. Ultimately, it seems as though it is the social dimension of the experiences, rather than the exp…
…joying your favourite sports. Find out more at https://oliverhughes2012.wixsite.com/website University of Salford Salsoc Synthesis: Idil Ismail and Nicola Guest Idil and Nicola, biochemistry and pharmaceutical science students, hope their business can alsohelp the University of Salford set a precedent among UK universities by ensuring their undergraduate chemistry laboratory classes practice ‘green chemistry’ and reduce their environmental footpri…
…ucation.” Part of this indecision is due to confusion between Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and more traditional forms of online learning. But there are important differences between the two. For a start, MOOCs have so far been operating from a separate platform with ‘star’ lecturers used to entice participants (David Attenborough is a voice on one of the FutureLearn MOOCs, for example). This compares to more traditional online learning whic…
…oundation degree at the end of three years while developing specialist and generic skills for employment in chemical industries. Among MMU’s industrial partners is pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. Students undertake work based learning and complete their academic education online with a residential week at MMU in each of the three years of study. The scheme is characterised by a strong working relationship with staff in industry and has the s…
