Category Archives: Enterprise

Preparing for Enterprise Week

Enterprise Week – a week that aims at promoting business awareness and self-employment -  is not an exclusively British thing anymore. It has turned global in the past two years and organizations around the world go on to celebrate it … Read More »

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Freshers Week

The new academic year is officially here and our campus is suddenly packed with students and life. The beginning of the year 2009-10 was marked with last week’s Freshers’ Week. Although I wasn’t able to attend any of the week’s … Read More »

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Young Entrepreneurship Masterclasses Completed…

…With a celebratory event! As you may remember from my previous posts: Introduction to Entreneurship for Year 6 Students, Part I and Part II, the 8 primary schools from our local Roehampton and Putney areas came back to the University … Read More »

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Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Year 6 Students – Part II

What did the pupils learn? All of the pupils have now gone back to their schools, where they will implement their business ideas. They will then come back for a celebration event in July, where they will have to make … Read More »

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Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Year 6 Students – Part I

That was the big project for the past two weeks. Year-six pupils from eight local primary schools came to our institution to attend a workshop that was designed to sharpen their business skills and introduce them to the basics of … Read More »

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Why Enterprise Modules Should Be Taught at Universities – Part II

Lots of universities have introduced enterprise modules over the past few years. Roehampton has recently taken the initiative to create a whole new Master’s course in Bioentrepreneurship that is expected to teach students how to transform their biomedical research into … Read More »

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Why Enterprise Modules Should Be Taught at Universities – Part I

For most people, the word “enterprise” is connected to starting and running one’s own business. The term, however, encompasses a much broader definition. “Industrious, systematic activity,” “initiative,” and “willingness to undertake new ventures” are only some of the synonyms that … Read More »

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