Citation
(2002), "Entrepreneurial programme to equip graduates with "self-employment" skills", Education + Training, Vol. 44 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2002.00444bab.006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
Entrepreneurial programme to equip graduates with "self-employment" skills
Entrepreneurial programme to equip graduates with "self-employment" skills
An enterprise project, designed to promote innovation and creativity in the curriculum and ultimately encourage more students to set up in business themselves, has been launched by Leeds Metropolitan University. The University has identified the provision of "self employment" skills as an important part of its teaching and learning strategy. The project is significant in the sense that the Regional Development Agency has prioritised the encouragement of business start ups, particularly by graduates from its universities, as a critical feature of its regional economic strategy. The project, "Business Start-Up@LMU" was launched in the University's Enterprise Week and was attended by representatives from business and industry who talked to students across the University about aspects of setting up a business. Over the next three years the project aims to target a number of academic areas within the University in order to integrate the issue of entrepreneurial studies and strengthen its development.
Further information can be obtained from: www.lmu.ac.uk/business-start-up/index.htm