Networking

Promoting short courses for adult entrepreneurship that include skills training.

Norton College (Sheffield) opens its digital and creative industry facilities and business start up support services for the local community.

In partnership with NACUE, official launch of the Sheffield College's student-led enterprise society.

Sheffield College has a strategic commitment to enterprise and employability. We are opening a new Enterprise Gateway office in our City College. The Gateway, staffed by business mentors, is easily accessible to students and staff and will offer advice, guidance and practical help on business startups and all other aspects of enterprise. Our Gateway opening event is timed to fit around both Global Entrepreneurship a City College open evening, thereby attracting a high level of interest.

This event also included promotion of start up loans for young entrepreneurs.

Business Sparks is a youth enterprise programme for 16 - 24 yeard olds in Newcastle upon Tyne. The programme begins this week, but is a ccomprhensive six month programme of support. The programme focuses on the exploration, experience and enteprise model, allowing young people to develop an enterprise idea into a business. The programme offers workshops, seminars, office space, business mentors, test trading opportunities, networking events and a start-up grant.

Budget marketing has changed - no longer is it enough to create a catchy poster and hope for the best - this workshop will help you make full use of social media, get the message right by identifying your USP and get your creative thinking hat on! Fun and fast paced workshop open to Glyndwr University students.

Ambitious Year 11 Student (Ben Phillips) will be selling his own product to College staff. For full details of how Ben started his own company at the age of 14 please visit www.bpenterprises.co.uk. Every purchase also helps the local community through the great work of the Rocky Appeal.

Portsmouth Football Club will be working with our Year 10 students and helping the students to identify their own personal skills and qualities. The students will also be given the opportunity to write a 'winning' CV in order to enter a competition sponsored by npower. The competition winners will spend four days with PFC over the Easter holiday period in various Club roles.

To explore Enterprise and self employment with guest speakers from DNCC, Kleeneez Princes trust and inspirational speaker Tarly Dhillon sharing experiences as a business owner and fellow Entrepreneur. Prestart and Startup business Networking and infomation.

Our panel consists of four Beauty and Fashion Video Bloggers that have sucessfully grown their channels and managed to monetize on their passion through YouTube. With 40 + Million views combined the panelists join us for a discussion and Q&A discussing the business of YouTube and all things Social Media, Beauty and Fashion as well as what they have learnt through their individual journeys.

Networking event with topical speakers

Working in a team, you’ve got just 24 hours to think of and design a concept for a brilliant and original mobile App! Just turn up at 6pm on Thursday 15th November at Imagine. Teams of 4 (individual contestants are very welcome – we’ll put you into a team when you arrive!)

THE PITCH At the end of the 24 hours, your team must present its new and original App to a panel of experts before answering questions about their idea. An excellent opportunity to develop a project that would be an ideal starting point for an App that you would like to develop and market in the future!

Are we witnessing a step change in the delivery and structure of education? New ideas, technologies and the internet are enabling exciting new educational approaches, offering powerful ways to engage students and develop teaching staff. Join us as three Centre entrepreneurs present their exciting educational businesses followed by an opportunity to put your questions to a panel of education industry experts in our facilitated discussion on the challenges, needs, barriers and direction facing the education sector.

Learners from Derby College will attend the Skills Show at the NEC in Birmingham. Held at the NEC Birmingham from 15-17 November, The Skills Show is free to attend and will play host to a range of skills competitions, awards and activities. Visitors will be inspired by skills in action as the best of the nation’s young talent perform at the WorldSkills UK Competitions; they’ll have chance to Have a Go at new skills, get up to the minute careers advice, access Apprenticeships and real job opportunities from employers, to help them make that next important step!

Learners across Derby College have been invited to come along and speak to local Entrepreneurs on Thursday 15th November 2012 for a 'Cafe Style' Workshop. Entrepreneurs and representatives from local businesses will be able to share their enterprising skills and characteristics with learners, and learners will be able to ask questions in an informal atmosphere. Entrepreneurs and reprensentatives from local Businesses include S&A Foods, Cirena Ltd who operate Birchover Hotel Apartments and Bay Tree Apartments in Derby, Oviso, Make a Difference and McAndrew Utilities.

Business, Catering, Hair/Barbering learners at Derby College will be demonstrating their enterprising skills and characteristics and have come up with a variety of fundraising activities for Children in Need 2012. This event will be attended by the Mayor of Derby who will participate in activities and officially open the Fundraising.

Young & Connected aims to bring together young professionals, entrepreneurs, graduates and students from across the UK to broaden their networks and meet like minded people in a relaxed atmosphere. We believe in the importance of networking and create an environment where new and experienced networkers can feel at ease with meeting people, leaving understand the benefits of having a strong diverse network.

An evening of high level networking between high growth businesses and business growth professionals.

The Business Studio will be hosting a presentation and networking evening Tuesday 20th November, from 7:30pm on how to get the most out of your eCommerce business.

Whether you are already Selling Online? Or Thinking of Starting? We will be exploring:

Current state of the online market.

Website usability; what are the large stores doing right that you can replicate, no matter how small your business may currently be!

Multi-Platform selling: eBay, Amazon, Play.com and how to structure this for your business.

Future growth of the industry

The success of TED, the Khan Academy and MIT Open Courseware has demonstrated how technology can disrupt education as we know it - bringing lectures from world class speakers into your front room.

But despite technology-enabled solutions, big educational challenges still exist:

Britain has the rather dubious honour of leading the developed world in Educational Disadvantage: the inequalities in educational outcomes that arise as a result of children's socio-economic background. Thousands of young people leave school without basic literacy and numeracy.