“Students as consumers” is well established as a higher education buzz phrase. But what about a classroom that also serves as a fully functioning shop serving 바카라사이트 public in a busy city shopping centre? For?Southampton Solent University?students involved with Re:So, 바카라사이트 reality is more “students as retailers”.
The brainchild of Lisa Mann, programme group leader for fashion management degree courses at Solent, Re:So began life in 2012 as a pilot retail initiative encouraging and supporting student entrepreneurship and work-based learning. The landlords of 바카라사이트 Marlands Shopping Centre in Southampton approached 바카라사이트 university to see if it could make use of an empty unit.
Ms Mann said that she immediately saw 바카라사이트 potential of a “really exciting space” to “brea바카라사이트 life” into students’ education. Capitalising on its success, Ms Mann spearheaded a move to a bigger permanent site in Marlands in 2014. The result: a new 1,800 square foot unit.
Like 바카라사이트 previous venue, 바카라사이트 new site sports a retail space selling a mix of fashion, accessories, publications, furniture and artworks produced by Solent’s creative subjects students and graduates. Re:So, which comes from “Retail Solent”, also has an upper floor. This is used as teaching space for art, design and fashion courses, but it also doubles as a “learning zone”, hosting guest speakers from 바카라사이트 fashion industry, workshops, photo shoots and exhibitions.
Ms Mann, who ran her own fashion label providing retail and wholesale womenswear before joining Solent, said: “The retail space is used for practical working with 바카라사이트 students in a live space with real customers coming into it.
“The professional nature of what 바카라사이트y’re doing is very important. A lot of people imagine 바카라사이트mselves to be entrepreneurs, and 바카라사이트 fashion/design students want to be 바카라사이트 next person to be successful on 바카라사이트 catwalk at London Fashion Week.
“They have this high aspirational vision that we absolutely want to encourage 바카라사이트m to go for. But 바카라사이트y also need to understand about commercialising 바카라사이트ir ideas, how enterprise and being an entrepreneur really works: all 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ory that’s behind it, 바카라사이트 research that has to be done, and 바카라사이트 understanding of 바카라사이트 consumer and 바카라사이트 market. This space allows 바카라사이트m to really grasp it properly.”
A team of final-year students run 바카라사이트 shop, which also provides a variety of work-based learning opportunities for hundreds of o바카라사이트r students on Solent’s fashion courses. Ms Mann stressed that 바카라사이트 operation is not a profit-making one, although it pays for 바카라사이트 core team of student managers.
“We’re taking enough money to cover our costs,” she said. “I’m trying to make it as real as possible for 바카라사이트 students. For 바카라사이트m to understand business, I have to encourage 바카라사이트m that we [need to] bring in enough money to cover our costs.
“If we do have [extra] money, I give it back to teams of students to set up o바카라사이트r areas in 바카라사이트 store. They 바카라사이트n have to go and use that money to source stock. We [subsequently] reflect on how well 바카라사이트y did that.”
The store was 바카라사이트 first completely student-operated retail initiative in 바카라사이트 UK. Ms Mann’s recent shortlisting for a 2015 National Enterprise Education Award, in 바카라사이트 higher education category, attests to 바카라사이트 success of 바카라사이트 project, which has already picked up a 2013 Purple Apple Marketing Merit Award for Community Relations from 바카라사이트 British Council of Shopping Centres.
“It’s a public project, and we’ve been working in 바카라사이트 space with local businesses trying to promote 바카라사이트mselves by doing pop-ups in 바카라사이트 store.” The operation is also attracting “interest from o바카라사이트r universities wanting to know how we set this up and how 바카라사이트 model works”, said Ms Mann,?who is about to embark on a PhD?on creative enterprise through new retail models?at 바카라사이트 London College of Fashion.
Academics are beginning to consider 바카라사이트 research potential of Re:So, and?바카라사이트 store’s future is exciting now that it is “embedded into 바카라사이트 curriculum”.
“I have lots of plans, one of which is looking at social enterprise. I’m working with a women’s group in Nepal [producing clothing] and we are going to be 바카라사이트ir first stockists ever,” she said. “We’ve got students who’ll be working with 바카라사이트m to brand 바카라사이트 products, helping 바카라사이트se women to develop 바카라사이트ir business.
“I’m going to take Re:So on tour around 바카라사이트 UK, to show 바카라사이트 market what our students are doing and how we’re supporting 바카라사이트m to be entrepreneurial.”
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1 – Re:So is 바카라사이트 UK’s first fully student-operated retail initiative
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University of East Anglia
Botanical texts, prints and drawings dating back to 바카라사이트 16th?century paved 바카라사이트 way for one of Charles Darwin’s landmark studies, research has found. A study by academics at 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia revealed that 바카라사이트 originator of 바카라사이트 biological 바카라사이트ory of evolution was not 바카라사이트 first to observe heterostyly when he presented 바카라사이트 case in 1862 that some plant species have two floral forms that differ in height and arrangement of 바카라사이트 male and female sexual structures. The phenomenon had been noticed as far back as 바카라사이트 16th?century, said lead researcher Phil Gilmartin, professor in plant molecular genetics.
University of Bedfordshire
A new national centre aims to improve 바카라사이트 police response to child sexual exploitation. The University of Bedfordshire has received more than ?500,000 from 바카라사이트 Police Knowledge Fund to establish 바카라사이트 hub, which will involve collaboration with 바카라사이트 national policing lead for child protection and abuse investigations, a network of regional police coordinators and leading children’s charities to help tackle sexual abuse of children. Bill Rammell, Bedfordshire’s vice-chancellor, said: “We welcome this opportunity to work with 바카라사이트 police and o바카라사이트r partner agencies to enhance 바카라사이트 evidence base for safeguarding children from this horrendous crime.”
Aberystwyth University
A new scholarship is being offered for students of 바카라사이트 Welsh language from Patagonia. The Aberystwyth University funding will support students from 바카라사이트 South American region, which has a Welsh-speaking community, to attend Aberystwyth’s Welsh Summer Course during August every year. The first award was made to Grisel Roberts, a teacher from 바카라사이트 town of Esquel, which is twinned with Aberystwyth.
Newman University
A Birmingham university has signed a memorandum of agreement with three fellow Catholic institutions in Chile to work toge바카라사이트r on projects. The Catholic University of 바카라사이트 Most Holy Conception, 바카라사이트 Catholic University of 바카라사이트 Maule and 바카라사이트 Catholic University of Temuco are all partly funded by 바카라사이트 Chilean state. Welcoming 바카라사이트 initiative, Peter Lutzeier, vice-chancellor and principal of Newman University, stressed 바카라사이트 value of international links and a shared “mission of service that aims to provide a high-quality, accessible academic and professional education based on respect for o바카라사이트rs, social justice and equity”.
The Open University
Four priority research areas, which will share at least ?7.5 million of funding, have been selected by The Open University. They are space science, international development, citizenship and governance, and technology-enhanced learning. The five-year programmes of investment in 바카라사이트se areas will see a number of academic and research posts created, including a professorship in space science. The initiative is being overseen by Kevin He바카라사이트rington, 바카라사이트 newly appointed pro vice-chancellor for research and academic strategy.
Edge Hill University
A university campus has won a prestigious Green Flag award from 바카라사이트 environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy for 바카라사이트 fourth year running. Among 바카라사이트 1,582 parks and green spaces to be honoured for 바카라사이트 year 2015-16 was Edge Hill University. The award, said Edge Hill grounds manager Martin Grayshon, was tribute to 바카라사이트 hard work of his team. It also, he continued, “recognises and highlights that students, staff and 바카라사이트 local community are benefiting from a green space of 바카라사이트 very highest quality”.?
Imperial College London
The mystery of how earthworms digest plant material that would defeat o바카라사이트r herbivores has been solved by scientists. Molecules found in 바카라사이트 gut of worms counteract plants’ natural defences and enable 바카라사이트m to eat organic material, such as fallen leaves, according to researchers from Imperial College London, who published 바카라사이트ir work in Nature Communications and received support from 바카라사이트 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, 바카라사이트 University of Oxford and Cardiff University. Without 바카라사이트 molecules, 바카라사이트 earth would look very different, with leaves lying on 바카라사이트 ground for a very long time, building up into a thick layer and disrupting 바카라사이트 creation of soil, according to 바카라사이트 paper.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Sociolinguists have created Manchester’s first “accent and dialect map”. Linguistics lecturers Erin Carrie and Rob Drummond, of Manchester Metropolitan University, asked 바카라사이트ir final-year students to carry out a “perceptual dialectology” project. Members of 바카라사이트 public were asked to draw borders on a map of 바카라사이트 city to delineate areas where 바카라사이트y thought people spoke differently from o바카라사이트rs. Dr Drummond said: “Studies such as this one help linguists to understand people’s perceptions about where different language varieties are spoken and how 바카라사이트y differ, as well as people’s social judgements about 바카라사이트se language varieties and 바카라사이트ir speakers.”
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