Connect to Business: a new filling in the sandwich?Professor Heather Fulford, Professor of Entrepreneurship, ABSDr Bob Gammie, Associate Dean, ABSErica Cargill, Programme Leader, UG Management Programme, ABS

Year 3 options – Management Programme

Taught route

Placement

Connect to Business

Types of Work Related Experience

Placements Projects

Connections

Challenges

Course Structure: Year 3 - Connect to Business

Semester 1

Enterprise in Action (Short Term Placement)

Semester 2

Enterprise in Action (Short Term Placement)

Enterprise Project Research Methods

Enterprise and Employability Residential Management Project

Developing Graduate Attributes: the I Brand model (Trought, 2012)

Student Interview

Workplace experiences: Johanna Basford placement

Live consultancy projects: ‘Reboot’

Making Connections: Entrepreneurship Dinner

Lessons Learned

•Payment of students – not a priority•Learning and working together as a cohort•Iterative learning•Influence of staff•Working with small businesses – two way benefit •Third sector opportunities hugely beneficial•Expansion of University’s network

Questions?