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I am writing a case study based on aspects of my experience teaching an enterprise module to post graduate students. It will be part of a collaborative paper with Dr Lisa Harris of Southampton University. The focus in this paper is the challenge for universities in preparing students for the changing nature of skills required in the workplace. My case study explores a few methods I have used in class to emulate aspects of the creative and media industries ‘life world’ such as a guest speaker event, during which we made use of various social media tools. In analysing the activities in more depth, I have identified some issues for international students who have found aspects of the module difficult.

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The Teaching and Learning centre at BCU, has just created a new research journal, LATHE, for emerging researchers. This is an opportunity to write a paper and get constructive feedback from our peers within the university and is also a good way to find out about activities across the university.
The deadline for the first journal is the end of the week and I hope to submit a paper tomorrow. The paper discusses entrepreneurship education and my experience teaching post-graduate creative and media students as a case study. I am using it to reflect on my teaching and explore some of the methods used in relation to current debates and theories. I am predominantly referring to the approach developed by the NCGE and by NESTA.