Enterprise Education: curriculum design to support entrepreneurial thinking - Transcript

The purpose of this Micro-CPD is to explain what enterprise education is, how it can be embedded into any discipline, the importance, and benefits of doing so, as well as sharing examples of how it can be done. 

Enterprise education involves curriculum design that equips students with an enhanced capacity to generate ideas, behaviours, and competencies to make them happen.  It provides opportunities to develop skills beyond just business start-up.  For example, resilience, creative problem-solving, and digital skills are needed in all walks of life and work.

The Birmingham strategic Framework describes the University as a place of transformative education.  Enterprise education supports this through embedding skills into our degree programmes whilst bridging the gap between academia and industry. It can increase recruitment onto courses, enhance the student experience, graduate outcomes, and societal impact. 

Enterprise education can be embedded so that the core subject remains paramount through an aligned curriculum, contextualisation and authentic assessments. Quick-wins can be identified to modify existing modules to include entrepreneurial learning outcomes, as well as creation of new modules. Pedagogically, there is a strong focus on experiential learning, interdisciplinarity and reflection, so that students can ‘learn by doing’.  Examples could include embedding the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals, live industry projects and business start-up simulations.

If you would like to discuss how enterprise could be embedded into your programme, please get in touch.