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Universities need to be at the centre of long-term partnerships in our cities and regions, helping to build thriving communities with creative, innovative businesses at their heart. This means moving beyond projects and prioritising deep links between sectors, and supporting staff and students to work with local government, further education, the NHS, business and communities. This

This blog was kindly contributed by Ceri Nursaw, Chief Executive of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). Over 12 weeks, HEPI has hosted blogs exploring the topic of leadership in higher education. In the final post in the series, Ceri reflects on some of series’ key messages. Our Autumn Talking Leadership series with

This question was posed recently at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Universities and NCEE had the opportunity to address a mix of MPs, Lords, Baronesses, Vice-Chancellors and senior higher education leaders. Here’s what I said … To look forward it is useful to first look back. It’s nearly 20 years since the Lambert Report

This blog was written by Professor Ken Sloan, Vice-Chancellor, Harper Adams University. It is the 11th in our series on leadership in partnership with the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) Prior to becoming Vice-Chancellor at Harper Adams University, I served as a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Monash University in Australia. The purpose of my role at Monash

This blog was written by Professor Sara Spear, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at St Mary’s University. It is the tenth in our series on leadership in partnership with Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) The ‘Building Belonging in Higher Education’ report by Wonkhe and Pearson emphasised the need for institution-wide approaches to developing student belonging, proposing ‘connection

As an entrepreneurial higher vocational college with a long history in China, Shandong Institute of Commerce and Technology (SICT) has distinctive business characteristics and strives to create a new paradigm for the cultivation of Innovative and Entrepreneurial talents. SICT has achieved a great number of awards, including China Model Higher Vocational College, China High-Quality College,

This blog was written by Dr Pauline Miller Judd, Director of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) Entrepreneurial Heads Programme and Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University. It is the ninth in our series on leadership in partnership with HEPI. The need for universities to be entrepreneurial in their approach has been increasingly highlighted over recent years.

This week we launch our Entrepreneurial University Manifesto. Developed by our community of entrepreneurial universities it sets out our intentions for developing enterprise and entrepreneurialism. It’ll be released this Thursday sign up to its intentions. During this week we are also running Entrepreneurial Heads, one of our leadership programme. Aimed at heads of schools and

This article is by Ceri Nursaw, Chief Executive of NCEE, and is the eighth entry in our current series on leadership in higher education with HEPI. For the first time, we have seen that for leaders the biggest challenge is ensuring they lead their teams well. From our NCEE Higher Education Leadership Report 2022 through to articles featured

London South Bank University’s (LSBU) entrepreneurial journey began in 1892; rooted in south London as The Borough Polytechnic Institute. Its mission was to ‘promote the industrial skill, general knowledge, health and well-being of young men and women.’ A culture of entrepreneurship Through strategic investment, LSBU established South Bank Innovation (SBI), to drive entrepreneurship and innovation across