Describes the national trialling of the Management Charter Initiative Senior Management Standards which involved hundreds of senior managers in 1994‐5. Outlines the results of the field tests and concludes that the senior management standards have a high level of acceptance among senior...

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce current debates on assessment practice in higher education and to explore educational research on assessment. Design/methodology/approach – The paper progresses by exploring a number of outcomes and highlights their role in helping one to understand the...

Purpose – This paper aims to identify criteria for assessing the viability of institutional strategies for enterprise education and to develop models that describe methods of organising enterprise education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies and explains a number of key...

Purpose – This article aims to report the results of a complete survey of enterprise education in all higher education institutions (HEIs) in England, undertaken in 2010 by the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE) on behalf of the National Council for Graduate...

By way of a substantial review of the literature, the paper sets out the challenges to leadership of universities arising from changes in the global environment and the implications for the entrepreneurial design of the higher education sector. The focus is upon the impact of a growing complex...

This chapter summarizes the latest studies in entrepreneurial learning in order to highlight their implications for the design of educational programs (Pittaway & Thorpe, 2012). It examines in detail the latest thinking on the subject, summarizes the key concepts and empirical contributions with...