Welcome to the CETLE Blog

Welcome

The White Rose Centre for Excellence in the Teaching and Learning of Enterprise enables students to develop enterprise skills so that they are equipped to....

No wait. You can read all that stuff on our website, this is supposed to be a bit more personal! Here you can really get a feel for what we do, who we are and whats going on in our corner of campus. It's quite exciting really - the CETLE has been around (ie funded) for a couple of years now, but we've finally got our hands on our newly refurbished and rather swish rooms so we can start doing things in a very obvious and public way.

Doing things? What do you do? I hear you ask. Good question right now to be honest, as we're still very much in the process of setting everything up but we've made an excellent start: We've got a total of 21 top-spec PC's and 3 apple G5's loaded with some of the best creative and design software around. We've supported York Entrepreneurs Club in running several of their events from The Apprentice to VentureQuest. We've now got 2 high profile student companies using our facilities - York Proms and The Yorker. We're starting to put on some of the planned workshops and training programs - George has been training people to use the macs to publish material to the websites, and hopefully Sage accounts training will be on the way soon!

Thats the obvious and "fun" activities. On the more academic side we've also pumped money into a number of departments to enable them to develop and teach enterprise in their courses so that even more students get a feel for the skills and attitude we believe are vital for anyone to be able to succeed out there in the big wide world any more.

So.. here's the blog - what's going to be put on here? Well, photo's of the CETLE - a photo diary if you will, showing how the place develops with time and recording some of the changing faces as we progress. More posts like this - comments and reflections on activities that have gone on, or are being planned and hopefully some guest spots - perhaps some posts by entrepreneurs saying how they did things, and what they think about a particular topic.

To be honest, we're not sure - this is a bit of an experiment so we might end up a long way from where we think we're heading right now. It'll be a fun journey though so keep checking back!