Martyn Robertson

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WELCOME

• Martyn Robertson Alison Price
• Business Start-Up_at_ Leeds Met

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CETL HEFCE

• Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
  is intended to capture the essence of their role
  and influence as forward-looking and dynamic
  proponents of excellence.
• CETLs will recognise, celebrate and promote
  excellence
• vibrant, dynamic entities with a visible
  presence in their institution(s), engaging
  directly and purposively with student learning.

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CETL HEFCE

• We envisage that CETLs will sustain and stimulate
  further excellent practice through teaching that
  is informed by scholarly reflection, developed
  through innovative and adventurous thinking,
  extended through tested knowledge to learning in
  new contexts, and multiplied by active engagement
  in dissemination of good practice.

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CETL Leeds Met

• Bidding Rounds Stage 2
• 259 eligible bids were received from 126
  different institutions
• 106 bids, of which 24 are collaborative bids
• Leeds Met Success 3 into round 2 bidding
• Proposed Institute for Enterprise

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CETL

• HEFCE
• The purpose of CETLs is to reward excellent
  teaching practice and to invest in that practice
  further in order to increase and deepen its
  impact across a wider teaching and learning
  community.

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CETL Our Mission

• To make Leeds Metropolitan University the first
  choice for students seeking enterprise teaching
  and learning across the whole range of academic
  disciplines offered.

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What is Enterprise?

• Enterprise is an inclusive concept
• the context in which subject disciplines can be
  explored
• challenging environment
• an approach, through skill development, which can
  be taken to the exploration and discovery of a
  discipline.
• skills of being enterprising  
• corporate perspective (as intrapreneurship)
• Creation of new ventures, social programmes and
  the exploration of new opportunities

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CETL Vision
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CETL Our Vision

• Creation of a flagship centre of excellence in
  enterprise teaching and learning - the "Institute
  for Enterprise".
• Build upon the brand of "Business Start-up _at_
  Leeds Met" - the name of enterprise and
  entrepreneurship at Leeds Met - to create a focal
  point of activity through a physical presence.
• This will allow increasing numbers of staff and
  students to benefit from existing materials,
  teaching methods and best practices.

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CETL Your help!

• Bold
• Adventurous
• Imaginative
• Innovative
• WHAT COULD THIS MEAN FOR YOU?

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CETL Your Ideas!

• Questions for today
• What could this do for your teaching / subject
  area?
• What would you need ?
• What would the space look like?
• What resources would assist?

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Ideas so far.

• Market research space
• Academic common room space
• Networking space
• Help zone type facilities
• Multi-media facilities
• Prototype testing spaces / equipment
• Presentation space - externals

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Ideas so far.

• Enterprise week / month per faculty
• Final year demos/ presentations/ shows
• WHAT WOULD YOU NEED TO CREATE ENTERPRISING
  STUDENTS?

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Thanks

• Exchange
• Email a.r.price_at_leedsmet.ac.uk