ENTERPRISE & COLLABORATION IN THE BUSINESS CLASSROOM: WHY IRELAND NEEDS IT.

Stephen Kinsella KBS @UL

2 STORIES THIS MORNING.

STORY 1: MICRO TO MACROTeaching students how to collaborate will stimulate their

creativity. Show students that business is at its best, creativeMore creative people fail better, succeed better.

Ireland will reap the benefits of the successes

Unemployment is the problem in Ireland today.

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Business CAO 1st preferences are falling.

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Final Domestic Demand, €m

•Indigenous, Employment-intensive•Responsive to local policy, local demand, local supply.•Cheaper than producing jobs via fiscally constrained government.•Struggling to much larger extent than internationalised sector.•Why? Credit constraints, lack of demand.

WAGES BY FIRM SIZE AND NATIONALITY, €000

ManufacturingManufacturing ServicesServices

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Irish Foreign Irish Foreign

35 42 30 65

36 51 32 62

41 52 31 56

48 63 36 41

Source: Census of Industrial Production, (2009)

BRIDGE THE GAP.

“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a

life, which is quite different from how to make a living.” ― Neil Postman, The End of

Education

YOUR DEGREES OF FREEDOM = 1

Can’t change what you teach.

Can change how you teach.

McLuhan: Medium is the message

If you teach collaboratively, students will respond.

End of story.

STORY 2: FROM YOU TO US.2nd level business students become 3rd level business students

Business CAO 1st preferences are falling.

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1,400

2,100

2,800

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

(UL - BUS/NUIG - Commerce/UCC - Commerce/UCD - Commerce/Trinity - BESS/DCU - Business/ NUIM - Business & Mgt)

ALTERED PERCEPTIONS OF BUSINESS POST-CRASH

CHALLENGE: SHOW BUSINESS AS A CREATIVE DISCIPLINE WHILE SHOVING CONTENT DOWN

STUDENTS’ THROATS.

INTERLOCKING PROBLEMS

•2nd Level students become 3rd level students.

•Or Not.

AN OLD SCHOOL IDEA

Be curious.

BIG QUESTION: HOW CAN

THE KBS HELP YOU?

ENTERPRISE & COLLABORATION IN THE BUSINESS CLASSROOM: WHY IRELAND NEEDS IT.

Stephen Kinsella, KBS @UL