Professor Tim R Dafforn Chief Scientific Advisor My background Lectured in the UK HEI system for 16 years Including lecturing on enterprise for the last 10 years both locally and nationally ID: 596715
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Enterprise Training in Higher Education
Professor Tim R. Dafforn, Chief Scientific AdvisorSlide2
My background
Lectured in the UK HEI system for 16 yearsIncluding lecturing on enterprise for the last 10 years both locally and nationally
Founder of 2 companies so also have an interest in employing good people
Director of Knowledge Transfer for 200 academics
at the University of Birmingham2014 Entrepreneur in Residence for Synthetic Biology in BIS last year2015 Chief Scientific Advisor BEIS (BIS) Slide3
What do we have to play with?Slide4
Quality of UK Universities.Slide5
Is that all there is to HE?Slide6
Academic Economics
(Post
war)Slide7
?
Changing world in the New Millennium Slide8
Academic Economics
(
Post 2006)
UniversitiesSlide9
Academic – Industrial Partnership
R&D projects £4.22:£1 GVA
R&D projects with Universities £9.67:1 GVA
Dowling Review 2015
32% UK economic growth comes from science and techSlide10
Don’t forget the importance of skilled workers
>250,000 STEM graduates per year
BUT
Should they be more skilled in enterprise?Slide11
Enterprise Education Project
Commissioned by BEIS Perm. Sec. in early 2016Aims to examine progress in developing enterprise educational provision in UK
HE
First phase: data analysis (HESA and LEO)
Currently engaging with stakeholdersResults to inform policy decisions
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Why Now ?
4 years since landmark QAA Enterprise education documentLEO Dataset availableDeveloping a new Industrial strategy
Stern Review of REF
Instigation of TEF
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Questions to be answered
What is the evidence for the benefits of enterprise training to the graduate and the economy?Is it the duty of higher education institutions to provide these skills?
What is considered best practice in enterprise training, both in the UK and internationally?
Is there a role for Government? If yes, what are the
“levers” available to government?Are there any perverse behaviours which could arise?Are the resources (money and skilled personnel) available to deliver the required content?Are
the current approaches the best way to deliver the desired outcome – are there alternative options?
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Plan for the next hour
Q&A Break into groups of 6-8
Nominate “Scribe” and “Rapporteur” (5
mins
)Discussion around “barriers”(15 mins) Report back and rank (15
mins
)
Develop solutions
(15
mins
)
Pick top 3 and report back (10
mins
)
Round up
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Thank You
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