Students can capitalise from the rise of crowdfunding?to gain highly valuable skills in planning, pitching and marketing entrepreneurial ventures as well as accessing funding for small scale projects, writes Dr Robert Phillips, senior lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Manchester Business School.
By Staff writer
David Docherty, CEO of the National Centre for Universities and Businesses (NCUB) and Chairman of Placer, explains how work experience can be used to inspire SMEs and help recruit the talent needed to power innovation.
When I was a kid, there was an air of exclusivity that came with having a degree, much of which came from the fact that they were only accessible to well-off families who could afford to send their children to university.
After what feels like an eternity, it appears that people are finally starting to open their eyes and see what I’ve been saying all along. Universities are cash-hungry con jobs.
Entrepreneurs can often be viewed as an overnight success, but it took a while for event ticketing platform FIXR to find its feet ?And when it did, the turnaround took just 15 minutes.
As the adoption of card payments continues to grow, NetPay has been there to support the transition. And with the company named 2015’s business-to-business champion, MD Carl Churchill spoke with Real Business about how facing firms is done with innovation, ideas and feedback.
By Jenny Taylor
Maintaining the UK’s prominent position at the global top table when it comes to the digital and technology spaces is one of the core challenges facing the country today – but awareness for students and businesses is the key to the problem.
The UK’s educators are embracing digital learning, with the belief that the educational method can boost the exam results of students by at least one grade.
By David Craik
The majority of students have been on the receiving end of fees that they were not meant to pay, and just a minority are challenging the businesses responsible. But as these companies will soon expect further businesses from millennials, why are they offering such poor treatment
By Mark Horneff
Don’t panic about a robot uprising, there’s firm evidence that technology is exceptionally important to the development of our younger generations’ educational development and, as a result, the future workforce.
