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Over the next 10 weeks HEPI will be running a series of leadership blogs in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). For more than 10 years, NCEE have run leadership development programmes for higher education to support creativity, innovation and the management of change. The first blog in the series was

A hang up of attending school and university and then working in higher education I always think of September as a new year. It’s a time when many of us make resolutions for the year ahead and plan new activity. Over the last year as we emerge from Covid, I have felt swamped by work. Lurching from

We’ve been tracking enterprise provision in higher education for over a decade. These snapshots tell a story of a landscape undergoing unprecedented change and reflect a key message: that enterprise and entrepreneurship has never been so important. Our previous survey of the sector, published in 2020, captured activity at the moment the pandemic struck. Enterprise

65% of students have considered starting or have started their own company according to a report launched today by The Entrepreneurs Network in partnership with Octopus Group. But here’s the but …70% see ‘not knowing where to start’ as a key barrier. At NCEE we believe that all students, regardless of background or discipline should

Our new webinar series Talking Leadership will be launching on Wednesday 4th March 1-2.30pm with an exciting round table discussion with winners of the Times Higher Education Outstanding Entrepreneurial University award. Hosted by NCEE and Sheffield Hallam University the webinar will look at the characteristics of entrepreneurial universities, how to embed entrepreneurship into long term university

The Levelling Up White Paper promises to ‘transform derelict urban sites into beautiful communities’, to boost people’s skills, and support local businesses. It also includes a commitment to ‘vastly simplify the local growth funding landscape’. (Read our first take on the white paper). Much of this funding will be channelled through the UK Shared Prosperity

What are the ideal traits of a university leader? Our survey data suggests exceptional time management and an ability to manage continual change and complex challenges are probably a good place to start. Despite the upheaval of the past few years, the challenges facing higher education leaders have remained remarkably consistent between 2019 and 2022. The

This blog was contributed by James Ransom, Head of Research at NCEE and a doctoral candidate at UCL Institute of Education. In a new report on entrepreneurial leadership, to be released on 15 March 2022 by the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE), one survey respondent stated: Some just want the apparently easy

The next White Paper arriving in the UK is the delayed Department for Levelling Up strategy calling at the red wall, ‘left behind’ places, and forgotten communities First thoughts on the government’s flagship Levelling Up White Paper. No further train analogies. The government published the Levelling Up White Paper today. Given the delays (the paper was

In our latest article Ian Dunn NCEE chair and provost of Coventry University and Mary Stuart, emeritus vice-chancellor of the University of Lincoln and NCEE board member look at how institutions can foster an environment for more fluid collaboration with other education providers. Students’ education was severely disrupted by the global pandemic, so the need for