Monica GibsonSweet

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The Future of Student Learning Designing Higher
Education of the Future
Perspectives from the National Council for
Graduate Entrepreneurship


Higher Education Academy
Monica Gibson-Sweet Jane Kettle, HEA Alison
Price, NCGE
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The National Driver for Enterprise and
Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

• NCGE aims to  
• lead long term cultural change in our
  universities
• shape the institutional environment for
  enterprise and entrepreneurship and embed good
  practice
• increase the number of graduate businesses
• inform regional and national policies that affect
  enterprise
• www.ncge.com
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Lessons Graduate 2009

• will have 19 different jobs and 7 separate
  careers
• will apply for jobs we dont even have names for
  yet!

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Towards an Entrepreneurial University
The Entrepreneurial University
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NCGE Future Vision

• A Higher Education environment driven by
• Entrepreneurial Institutions
• Entrepreneurial Staff
• Entrepreneurial Stakeholder Partnerships
• Entrepreneurial Opportunities
• Leading to
• Entrepreneurial Graduates
• Entrepreneurial Lives and Careers
• Entrepreneurial Organisations and Communities

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Visions explored

• The Entrepreneurial University
• Strong leadership vision, strategy, outcomes
  strong culture/values cross-campus rewards for
  excellence stakeholder partnerships
• The Entrepreneurial Educator
• Innovative entrepreneurial leader creative
  learning practices student ownership fully
  engages the entrepreneurial life-world
• The Entrepreneurial Graduate
• Self-confident experienced high entrepreneurial
  capacitiescapable of thriving in an uncertain,
  unpredictable, complex world

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National Need

• Levelling the playing field access to
  opportunity
• Broadening the concept relevance to all
• Stronger recognition - legitimacy
• Scale-ability
• Aligning purpose opportunity and outcomes
• Shaping conducive/enabling environments
• Student-led engagement
• Stakeholder-led engagement
• Institutional leadership
• Sustainability of impact/outputs

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What are Desirable Entrepreneurial Learning
Outcomes?
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Source Prof Allan Gibb
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This demands from us

• University Leadership
• Leadership programme
• Academic
• Staff Development support
• Student Opportunities
• FS / HEI graduate entrepreneurship programmes
• FS Online support environment (www.flyingstartonli
  ne.com)

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This demands from you

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Thank you

• Alison Price alison.price_at_ncge.org.uk
• IEEP http//ieep.ncge.com/home
• IEEConference http//ieec09.eventbrite.com/
• Flying Start http//www.flyingstartonline.com/