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Minister launches NCGE report
On Monday 12 November, The Rt.
Hon. John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Business,
The survey, the largest of
its kind, was undertaken with RDA support.
It provides a comprehensive picture of the
scope and scale of enterprise and entrepreneurship education in our
universities. It shows considerable progress has been made in fostering
the climate, conditions and impetus for shaping the future of enterprise and
entrepreneurship education. There however, remain significant challenges:
- in increasing Student Engagement Rates, with currently only 11% of
students engaged in enterprise or entrepreneurship activity;
- improving the quality, consistency, equality of exposure and impact
of provision with for example, 61% of in-curriculum activity being based
in Business and management schools with engineering and art and design being
next at 9% and 8% respectively;
- ensuring sustainability when the majority of activity is funded
from the public purse;
- to change the policies and practices within universities which
reflect a culture of enterprise and entrepreneurship. Less than 50% of
universities exhibit key entrepreneurial characteristics which makes it
difficult for them to respond to the growing aspirations amongst
students.
The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) has already
held a seminar on the findings with a range of Government officials and will
continue to work with them.