Australian Experiential Learning Centre

AELC CEO Tracey Hodgkins was asked to contribute her thinking on Entrepreneurship Education to the Business and Higher Education Round Table community made up of Industry leaders, Higher education institutions and Government.

Her article published in the December 2010 B-Hert News is titled ‘The Role of University in Developing Entrepreneurial Capabilities’. It talks about how Australian Universities have a responsibility to educate and support Australian Entrepreneurs to really compete in a Global entrepreneurial stage.

Read the article by Tracey Hodgkins (PDF 270 KB)

Download the B-Hert News, issue 29, December 2010 (PDF 3.5 MB)

#education | Tracey Hodgkins claims we will end up with a “whole society of disengaged learners” if the education system doesn’t change.

Tracey, CEO of AELC, is interviewed this week in WA Business News.

“… kids are coming out of university and they can’t apply what they have learnt because it doesn’t make any sense”

View a larger clipping of the article on the AELC Facebook page

Photos from the final event of Business Icon Victoria 2010 are now online at www.australianbusinessicon.com/photo-archive/vic/2010/final-event/

Business Icon Victoria 2010 Final Event

Photographs are courtesy of Jorge de Araujo Photography

Benjamin Smith - Winner of WA Business Icon 2010 in action at the final

The 2010 WA Business Icon competition reached its conclusion on Monday with a huge event at the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in Perth.

The final four contestants had arrived back in Perth the previous afternoon from their gruelling research expedition to Singapore, leaving little time to rest and prepare.

In front of a panel of eight high profile judges and an audience of over four hundred, the title of WA Business Icon was taken out by Benjamin Smith.

Ben is an Edith Cowan University graduate, currently working in local government whilst studying for a Master of Commerce at the University of WA and tutoring students from ECU’s faculty of Business and Law.

WA Business Icon Final 2010 at the Hyatt Grand Ballroom in Perth

After the initial briefing at Contact Singapore, a part of the Singapore Government, the Business Icon finalists have been grilling our hosts with question after question about this modern dynamic city.

Notebooks are being rapidly filled up with facts and ideas.