This presentation is linked to a workshop presented at the HEA Enhancement event ‘Successful students: enhancing employability through enterprise education’. The blog post that accompanies this presentation can be accessed via http://bit.ly/1JIE3wh

1. Enhancing employability through
enterprise education
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2. • Reflection on what enterprise education is and how
it complements and enhances employability
• Discussion and sharing of approaches to addressing
and embedding enterprise education
• An introduction to the HEA resource enhancing
employability through enterprise education
Workshop objectives
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3. Defining enterprise education
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4. Enterprise education is not business
studies. Entrepreneurship is only one
of the possible outcomes. Enterprise
education aims to equip students
with a set of capabilities which they
can apply to whichever context they
choose; the capability to take
action, effect change, create value,
and lead
University of Sheffield
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What and Why
Having the attitude, initiative and
ability to recognise opportunities and
the confidence and creativity to
make the most of them. Employers
value Enterprising people for the
fresh thinking they bring to the
workplace.
Staffordshire University

5. We are trying to tackle the
'wicked' problem of preparing
students for jobs that don't yet
exist, using technologies that have
not yet been invented, in order to
solve problems that we don't
know are problems yet.’
Norman Jackson 2008 –The
Wicked Problem of Creativity in
Higher Education
Why
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6. The process of equipping students
(or graduates) with an enhanced
capacity to generate ideas and the
skills to make them happen.
Behaviours
Attributes
Skills
Enterprise and entrepreneurship
education equips students from
all subject areas with the
attributes, capabilities and
skills to be entrepreneurial
within a range of employment
settings
Defining enterprise education
QAA 2012
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7. • Creativity and innovation
• Opportunity recognition,
creation and evaluation
• Decision-making
• Problem solving
• Reflection & Action
• Financial & business literacy
• Implementation of ideas
through leadership and
management
• Managing autonomously
• Interpersonal skills &
awareness
• Confidence
• Communication & Strategy
skills
• Networking
• Persuasion & negotiation
• Perseverance & resilience
Enterprise EducationThemes
behaviours, attributes & skills (QAA 2012)
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8. Defining employability
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9. Achievements, skills, knowledge
and personal attributes – that
enable graduates to gain employment, be
successful in their career, and manage
change effectively.This benefits them, the
organisation, the community and the
economy.
Preparing graduates for the future; for
a constantly changing global labour
market and a constantly changing
society.
‘Graduates need more than academic
knowledge and skills to stand out from
the crowd in today’s competitive global
job market.
In the 21st Century, employers expect
‘graduates to be enterprising,
resilient, reliable, adaptable and
flexible.
Defining employability
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10. • Subject specialists
• Investigative
• Independent & critical
thinkers
• Resourceful &
responsible
• Effective communicator
• Confident
• Adaptable
• Experienced
collaborator
• Ethically & socially
aware
• Reflective learner
University of Glasgow: graduate attributes for
employability
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11. • Personal development
• Project planning &
evaluation
• Innovation
• Problem-solving
• Business skills
• Communication skills
• Reflection
• Team working
• Sector skills
• Work experience
• Subject skills
• Research skills
• Career development
• Social & cultural
awareness
UCLAN: employability framework
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12. Making connections
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13. Government expectations
• Expect teaching and learning to develop the skills, knowledge and
attributes required for sustainable economic growth
Student expectations
• Expect value for money
• Expect to enhance their employability
• Expect to successful in their transitions from higher education
• Expect to be prepared for and be able to access options and opportunities
Employers/Labour Market
• Expect and need graduate skills, knowledge, attributes to be effective in a
global economic labour market, including;
flexibility, adaptability, enterprising mind set, being innovative and
ability to think on their feet.
Making the case: drivers
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14. It is clear that a lack of
employability skills is harming the
ability of the young to enter the
workforce and being enterprising
is seen as a necessity by
Business.
David Frost Chair LEP Network
An education system fit for an
entrepreneur (2014)
Thread enterprise learning
throughout education. Enterprise
education can have a purposeful
impact in developing both the
soft and hard skills sets of young
people.
RSA Manifesto forYouth
Enterprise (2013)
The value of enterprise education in
enhancing employability
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15. Barriers and enablers
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16. Enterprise education : barriers
• Clarity of language: what is enterprise education?
• Ownership: is it university wide ?
• Engaging students: how?
• Making connections: employability
• Embedding in curriculum
• Support for staff
• Working together across the HEI
• Engaging employers- particularly SMEs
• Measuring impact

17. • Expectations
• High on agenda
• Employability
• QAA Guidelines
• Support
• Good practice
• Work related learning
• Working in partnership
internally
• And with external
stakeholders
Enterprise education: Enablers
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18. Enterprising behaviours
To help students develop core behaviours for enterprise through learning activities
that enable them to practise, exhibit and develop confidence in key areas.
Enterprising attributes
To help students discover and develop personal attributes for successful enterprise,
develop an awareness of these and find opportunities to enhance them.
Enterprising skills
To help students develop core skills for enterprise and provide opportunities
for these to be practised within a range of situations to gain enhanced
confidence and self belief.
Enterprise education: Role of Educator
(QAA 2012)
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19. Enabler: sharing good practice
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