Business Accelerator

Description

This module (BUSN08058) is aimed at students who have started or who intend to start their own business and are at any stage of the business development pipeline namely; pre start, start up, early stage, growth or maturity. The Module will be delivered by experienced enterprise and business practitioners utilising dynamic physical and digital teaching and learning spaces embedding input from key stakeholders and partners within the Module. This module is developed in accordance with the UWS Graduate Attributes and helps students to develop the range of skills, qualities and abilities which will prepare them for success both outwith university and beyond their period of study at UWS. This module will help the student develop academic skills such as gaining knowledge, being a critical thinker, being analytical, being a problem solver, being digitally literate and being an autonomous learner. The module also helps to develop many personal and professional attributes. This programme adopts a new pedagogical approach that digitally and physically accelerates, empowers and enables an interactive student centric educational experience. Core educational content is hosted through a versatile virtual learning platform which allows staff to customise and communicate learning cognisant to their field, industry and the expectations of students. Students will develop the personal skills, qualities, attitudes, aptitudes and behaviours required to manage and develop an SME such as; management skills, leadership, confidence, motivation, communication, organisational and social, digital and technical skills whilst gaining the creative confidence needed to build and develop a successful business in today’s dynamic marketplace.

On successful completion of this module the student will be able to:

  • Appraise the nature, contribution and resources required for a small business to succeed in the UK economy and identify the challenges which they face
  • Investigate theories of entrepreneurial skills
  • Examine their personal entrepreneurial skills inventory and gaps

This is an SCQF Level 8 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

To view the module descriptor, please visit Programme Specifications and Module Descriptors 

 

Delivery 

This module will be delivered at the Paisley campus. Timetable to be confirmed.

 

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Alan Murray.

 

Funding

This course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates.  Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk 

 

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further enrolment information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.  

 

Graduate Apprenticeship

In addition to being available on a CPD basis, this module is part of our fully funded Graduate Apprenticeship - BA (Hons) Business Management.

Our Business Management GA has been developed in collaboration with industry leaders to support aspiring business managers and leaders to develop the essential skills and knowledge needed to underpin business growth, innovation and increased productivity.

Modules available through the UWS CPD Centre include:

For further information regarding any of the above modules, please contact cpd@uws.ac.uk 

For further information regarding the GA, please contact apprenticeships@uws.ac.uk