Winner of National Enterprise Educator Award
The Entrepreneurship Institute have won HE Team Enterprise in the 2017 National Enterprise Educator Awards.
The Awards recognise excellence within enterprise and entrepreneurship education in UK higher and further education and celebrate those who have demonstrated an exceptional and inspirational commitment to supporting student and graduate entrepreneurship.
The HE Team Enterprise category recognises a team of HE staff delivering exceptional enterprise or entrepreneurship education inside or outside the curriculum.
The awards are run by Enterprise Educators UK (EEUK) and the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE), sponsored by Simply Do Ideas.
The Entrepreneurship Institute team won for the exceptional 12 month growth of the Institute and innovative initiatives such as the London Venture Crawl run by Learning Programme Manager Jeremy Shorter.
The Institute was awarded £1000 funding at the International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference (IEEC) Gala Dinner in Glasgow. The award was accepted by the Institute’s Engagement Manager Hemali Patel and Accelerator Manager Ed Halliday.
EEUK, of which King’s College London is a member, is a national network that brings together over 1,600 enterprise and entrepreneurship educators and practitioners from over 100 UK Higher and Further Education Institutions and related organisations. NCEE work with universities to ensure UK higher education remains at the forefront of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
Ana Bakshi, Head of Entrepreneurship said,
“It's an absolute joy to see the hard work, determination and commitment to provide high quality enterprise education to our students being recognised. Our Programme managers, Jay, Hemali and Ed as well as brilliant Communications Manager Amy and our incredible gatekeeper Josh are driven and passionate in instilling entrepreneurial skills sets into our community and this award is credit to this. We are a team of entrepreneurs - who will continue on this vision.”
Julie Devonshire OBE, Director of the Entrepreneurship Institute said,
“It is so special that our work at the Entrepreneurship Institute has been recognised in this way. We are still at the early stages of our journey here at King’s to enhance the entrepreneurial mindset and have more to do. We are hugely grateful to receive this award – it’s entirely down to the brilliant team who work tirelessly to embed entrepreneurship into the DNA of King’s.”