UK Government provides millions for entrepreneurship education to schools, Further education programmes and to Higher Education. And I mean millions. Broadly these funds go to secondary schools to ensure 5 days worth of entrpreneurship education (but political correctness means we have to call it “enterprise education” – whatever that is) Those who have not gone [...]
Archive for June 2009
Entrepreneur in different languages
In Spanish: Emprendedor In Finnish: Yrittäjä – More or less meaning someone who tries By Carlos del Corral Product design and development manager posted 1 hour ago In German it’s “Unternehmer” which, like in French, literally means “someone who undertakes to do something”. It’s a pity that the translation into English of “Undertaker” has a [...]
Oxford and Cambridge only two medieval Universities that have a strong provision of entrepreneurship education
As Cambridge celebrates 800 years of progress, which together with Oxford is the only University which is ranked in single digits! Year, University, Ranking(08) Country 1088 Bologna 192 = Italy 1096 Oxford 4 UK 1175 Modena 501+ Italy 1200 Sorbonne (Paris IV) 239= France 1209 Cambridge 3 UK 1218 Salamanca 401-500 Spain 1220 Montpellier III [...]
Is there opportunity in getting rid of aging?
The following is an extract from http://www.sens.org/index.php?pagename=sens_rab Two thirds of all deaths worldwide, and about 90% of all deaths in the developed world, are from causes that only rarely kill young adults. These causes include Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes and most cancers. They are age-related because they are expressions of the later stages [...]
Is there a word for entrepreneur in languages other than French
Over the past 6 months I have had an opportunity to travel to several countries and it seems to me that only French has a real word to capture the essence of what it is to be an innovator that brings an idea to market. English has largely borrowed from the French – but has [...]
Never trust overpaid fools but let us not confuse ethics with education
“I hope we never again trust overpaid fools who think they know best thanks to bogus theories!” This was the end line from a piece by Luke Johnson in the Financial Times on Friday 29th May in FT.com. I completely agree that the world should not trust overpaid fools. It seems to me that while [...]
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