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22 Mar 2010 12:17:58
Six budding entrepreneurs are representing the University of Bedfordshire in prestigious national championships at the end of the month.
Students will be given a real business challenge to resolve and present within a 36-hour timescale, with help from business experts, at the Flux National Championships in Nottingham from 29-31 March.
Employers from some of the UK’s most dynamic companies will judge teams in Apprentice-style meetings and Dragons’ Den-style pitches, looking to spot talent and not just to test existing knowledge.
The competition winners will receive £500 cash each and a chance to implement their business idea.
The six outstanding students from the University are Alexia Francesca Grech, Manjunath Basapoor, Greg Dorban, Alin Dobrea, Batjargal Sugarjav and Simona Stasiulyte.
Alexia said: “This experience has made me aware of the fact that it is not about winning but about the journey of how you progress.
“Being part of Flux 2010 in Nottingham is going to open so many doors for me in terms of my future career. I can’t wait to get on the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship!”
Flux is the UK’s largest annual inter-university competition, organised by the Working Knowledge Group, to encourage entrepreneurship and bridge the gap between education and the world of work.
The competition is being held for the fourth time - 30,000 students have been involved so far.
In last year’s Flux, student teams of six from more than 170 degree disciplines studying at more than 100 universities took part. More than 60 per cent were from non-business related subjects and the focus is on generic employability. CETL also funded a team last year which attended and competed.
A selection process this year saw 36 progress from open invitation and applications who developed skills including business awareness, decision-making, team effectiveness, communication and presentation skills.
The series of coaching workshops was focused on building students’ capability through a process which replicates aspects of the national Flux competition and was supported by staff from CETL, CPCD and academia as well as employers.
All 21 students who stayed the course competed in the Flux internal competition, which CETL organised in-house on Tuesday, 9 March, to choose the six to represent the University in the nationals.
Arti Kumar, CETL Associate Director, said: “We used assessment centre approaches as a way of recruiting, engaging and coaching students, and also used aspects of SOARing to Success such as self-assessment against the criteria we are using for observation and feedback on group work and presentation skills.
“SOARing turns the dynamic inter-relationships between self, opportunity, aspirations and results into a developmental process that is integral within the revised curriculum at our University.”
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