Higher Level Skills
Enterprise and skills networks/programmes are established to enable Entrepreneurs, undergraduates and businesses to develop and grow. They provide support and services to small businesses starting up to enable them to develop and grow.
To increase the skills base of the regional economy, programmes are established to integrate skills and business to meet with the regional needs.
Work placement schemes provide the opportunity for graduates and small businesses to exploit their skills and knowledge acquired.
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Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group (HEEG)
HEEG is supported by SEEDA and is open to all entrepreneurs working within Higher Education in the South East of England. The main objective is to raise the entrepreneurial skills base of the regional economy.
Please visit the graduate national council for Graduate Entrepreneurship website for further information.
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STEP- Shell STEP Technology Enterprise Programme
(UK wide programme offering undergraduates project-based work within small to medium sized businesses)
STEP is a national programme that arranges structured work placements for university undergraduates at small and medium businesses in the local area.
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AURIL Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Management
The AURIL CPD Programme was set up to respond to the comments made by the Business Interface Training Provision review (2002) and the Lambert review (2003).
It is a framework for Knowledge Transfer Practitioners and outlines the fundamentals that a Knowledge transfer professional should be able to perform.
For further information, please visit the AURIL CPD website.
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Alliance of Sector Skills Councils
The Alliance is a new organisation comprising all 25 licensed UK Sector Skills Councils (SSCs), the employer-driven organisations that together articulate the voice of the employers of around 90% of the UK´s workforce on skills issues. www.sscalliance.org -
Learning Opportunities in the South East www.learning-opportunities.org.uk
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Foundation Degree Forward To meet the demands of workforce development, business improvement and the knowledge economy, fdf will seek to stimulate, support and sustain employer partnerships with higher education www.fdf.ac.uk
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South East Lifelong Learning Network Hampshire & Isle of Wight www.hi-lln.co.uk
Kent and Medway www.gohigher.org.uk
Progress South Central www.progresssouthcentral.org.uk
Sussex Learning Network www.sussexlearningnetwork.org.uk
