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The University of Leeds has been named ‘Entrepreneurial University of the Year’ at the Times Higher Education Awards.

I thought of the idea for carwow at my parents’ kitchen table! A new car is the second biggest purchase many people will make in their life, after a house, yet the process has largely gone unchanged for the past 100 years. Despite the internet bringing travel, housing, and all other large purchases into the modern age, new car buying still involved customers having to travel around to multiple dealerships and haggle face-to-face with salespeople while still not knowing if they were getting a good deal. I set out to fix this.

The University of Leeds has won The Duke of York Award for University Entrepreneurship.

With UK unemployment at only 5.4%, why has there been a 700,000 increase in self-employment since 2008?

With over 5 million small businesses, is the UK becoming a nation of entrepreneurs and business owners? And if so, is this important?

Now that you have finished the course, we hoped that you enjoyed it and we would like to ask you some final questions. We would like you to revisit the questions that you answered at the beginning of the course about business topics and social media use. It will take only 10 minutes.   The...

Welcome to our course “Starting a Business” we hope that you’ll find lots of inspiration and ideas from our featured entrepreneurs, business advisers and teachers. Before you start we would like to know a little bit more about you. We have provided a link to a number of questions about your experience of other online...

Why Embed Enterprise Education into your Curriculum? The UK government has been exploring ways to enhance young people’s employability skills that will see Enterprise Education embedded within the FE curriculum. Free Resources to Support Enterprise Education in your Curriculum The Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies have developed a free online resource for FE Schools...

Activity Six illustrates the importance of being able to raise funds to when starting a business. There are many ways to get your business up and running, from the informal such as personal savings & borrowing, borrowing from friends & family, to the more formal avenues like bank loans, raising equity to crowd-funding. About this...