Employment News

Dragons Den Business Proposals 

As part of a second year Skills module students had to come up with a business idea which required them to develop a new product for assisting elite athletes, a social enterprise initiative, or a community development project. They then had to pitch their idea to a panel of experts and representatives from local businesses in a dragon’s den style format. Panel member Catrin Roberts who is a Regeneration Manager for the Welsh Government commented “As a regeneration specialist it was very heartening to see how many of the groups had put thought into the community benefits of their ideas both through the services their projects delivered and the reinvestment of profit back into the community. It's very good to see that young people are thinking in this way and it certainly fits with current trends of placing community benefit clauses into public sector procurement and ideas concerning 'the big society'.”

 

Panel for second year Skills 2 pitching presentations: (from left to right) Tony Orme (CCS Enterprise Manager), Charlotte Allsopp (Teaching Fellow, Accounting and Finance, SMB), Phillip Smith (Evolve), Fiona Higgs (KESS student), Catrin Roberts (Welsh Government Regeneration Manager), Emily Oliver (Module Coordinator)

 

Academic Champions of Enterprise

As part of the ACE (Academic Champions of Enterprise) project, SES and IGES have awarded departmental prizes for enterprise focused undergraduate research proposals. Six prizes of £250 each have been awarded for third year dissertation proposals which contain an element of enterprise. The network of ACEs has run for three years at the University and includes staff members in seven Departments.

 

Photo includes from left to right three ACE members, and the student bursary winners James Hickman (IGES), John Bryn Jones (SES), David Langford (SES), Joshua Charles (SES).