From first jobs to first businesses: Why enterprise education must underpin the UK's entrepreneurial ambitions

EEUK Policy Review | 28 October 2026 The Chancellor's Budget, a new Treasury entrepreneurship prospectus and three significant research reports have made this an unusually busy week for enterprise and entrepreneurship policy. Together they reveal growing entrepreneurial ambition, changing graduate career pathways and a renewed government focus on business creation and growth. They also raise important questions about whether the support available is sufficiently focused on developing the people behind the businesses.

#IEEC2028 Call for Hosts

IEEC2028 represents a fantastic opportunity for an organisation to raise its profile on the national and international stage through its association with this world leading enterprise and entrepreneurship education conference.

EEUK Vacancy: Policy Adviser

Help strengthen the voice of enterprise education in public policy

New AHRC Funding Call: Developing a Commercialisation Guide for Creative Industries Research

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), working in partnership with Research England, has opened a new funding opportunity aimed at transforming how universities support the commercialisation of Creative Industries (CI) research.

Volunteers Needed: Help Us Review and Restructure the ETC Toolkit

The ETC Toolkit has grown into one of the most substantial resources available to our community: 100 case studies and 140 how-to guides supporting the development of QAA Enterprise, and 49 case studies and 82 how-to guides supporting the development of QAA Entrepreneurship.

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IEEC2025: Nurturing Collaboration, Future Focus and a Few Lightning Sparks

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Celebrating unity, community and collaboration

Last month I was invited to join the EEUK Board of Directors to support a new MOU partnership with AGCAS, two memberships organisations which both hold a special place in my heart.

Doing Things Differently Makes a Difference

Anyone else ready for a break?!  Those in student-facing roles may be starting the wind-down for summer (although I suspect I am far from alone in noticing that magical summer ‘break’ and ‘winding-down’ time seems to get shorter every year) where often we find ourselves completing Exam Boards and looking to the near future of semester 1 starting again in just a few short months.