11 March 2010: Enterprising students brave dragon’s den to raise charity funds

Multicultural cuisine and branded merchandise business plans have won two groups of budding UCL entrepreneurs start-up funding and expert advice to raise money for charity. More...

8 March 2010: Money for nothing and your kicks for free

By Jonathan Moules
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2 March 2010: Former Dragon enters entrepreneurs’ den

Business guru Doug Richard – one of the original members of the BBC’s Dragons’ Den – visited UCL last week to advise budding entrepreneurs on improving their marketing skills.
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11 February 2010: UCL and The Royal Veterinary College awarded £240,000 to develop internship programmes

UCL and The Royal Veterinary College are delighted to have been awarded a further £240,000 by HEFCE to allow them to continue to develop and deliver their successful graduate internship programmes.

Collectively UCL and RVC will place up to 150 talented graduates with knowledge intensive companies based across London and the south east.

The collaborative programme will require RVC to deliver around 35 life science internship placements, while UCL will administer approximately 115 internships in fields such as digital industries, advanced manufacturing, engineering and financial services. All participants will be offered a place on UCL's Summer Enterprise Boot Camp to help prepare them for work in the current business environment.

The paid internship placements will help recent graduates to develop vital employability skills, through both work based learning and skills training sessions, and allow both small and large companies to preserve novel research, development and commercial projects during the economic downturn.

The award will help both institutions to build on their existing programmes. UCL already planned to offer 50 work experience places this summer following from their successful scheme, first run last year. The grant similarly allows RVC and The London BioScience Innovation Centre to continue to grow its reputation in the employability field by helping life science graduates make the transition from higher education to the commercial bioscience sector through work experience placements and skills development.  The new places are additional to the ongoing successful ORBIS internship programme which runs until September.

The UCL-RVC programme is managed by UCL Advances, the centre for entrepreneurship and business interaction at UCL. Timothy Barnes, Executive Director of UCL Advances, commented that:

"We are delighted to have received this funding from HEFCE. Students across the country continue to face an uncertain job market and the more training and work experience we can offer them, the better their chances of finding a suitable job. Our programme last year saw 94.7% of students rating the scheme good or very good and of the 38 businesses that offered internships, 100% were satisfied or extremely satisfied with the work carried out by their interns. This is a valuable scheme for students and employers and we look forward to delivering many more successful projects this year."

In line with all of the HEFCE-supported work experience schemes, places on the UCL-RVC will be available to graduates of all universities with priority being given to those that graduated last year and have yet to find stable employment and for those graduating in 2010.

For more information and to express an interest in applying, please contact Chris Crimp: c.crimp@ucl.ac.uk More...

6 January 2010: E-Challenge 08/09 Runner Up in Wall Street Journal

Chester Mojay-Sinclair, runner-up in the E-Challenge 08/09, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal Europe's Future Leaders Programme with his idea for Alive and Giving, a charity-service business, that helps charities to take donations via their websites. More...

6 January 2010: London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge 2009/10 Winners Named

9 December 2009: New appointment to UCL’s senior management team

20 November 2009: UCL and London Borough of Camden Working Together for a Brighter Future

12 November 2009: Convergence Is The Future, But Is It Even Possible? Findings from UCL Future of Telecoms and Convergent Media Forum

4 October 2009: Work experience a ‘win-win’ scenario, say students and businesses

28 September 2009: UCL hosts third annual ‘Seedcamp’ for fledgling entrepreneurs

1 August 2009: How students can get a government-funded gap year

22 July 2009: UCL (Ad)Ventures Club

18 June 2009: ‘The Future of Sport: Business, Technologies and Public Engagement’

15 May 2009: UCL Awards for Enterprise 2009

24 April 2009: UCL tackles credit crunch with free training and consultancy

25 March 2009: UCL's Student Entrepreneurs Success in Their First "Assignment"

17 February 2009: Innovate to Regenerate, findings from UCL Future of Financial Markets Forum

17 February 2009: UCL holds its first ever simulated ‘trading’ workshop

12 February 2009: Lord Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer, presents guest lecture at UCL.

25 January 2009: London gains financial computing centre

5 December 2008: UCL wins £40m ESPRC grant for seven new Centres for Doctoral Training

5 December 2008: UCL wins Knowledge Transfer Awards

2 December 2008: Finalists named in university spin-out awards

12 November 2008: UCL Advances named as one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurial Startup Resources (Europe)