7E Education and Enterprise Development – The International Open University

This School focuses attention on:

Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Development, Employability (the core 3E), Expertise, Experience, Engagement/Execution, and Emotional Intelligence (7E) education, including;
Higher education research and innovation (HERI);
Express focus on embedding 3E skills in disciplinary curricula;
Applied and serial entrepreneurship in different industry sectors
Advising governments and client firms on building 3E expertise
Links among Innovation, Creativity and 3E research, and their real-world impact pathways;
Research in entrepreneurial finance pathways for different types of projects;
Links with interdisciplinary research conducted within the School of Advanced Multidisciplinary Studies;
Radical innovations in research, teaching, learning, assessments, consulting, and community services (RETLACCS Innovations);
with a special focus on Pedagogy of Modelling & Mathematical Sciences (PEMMS), using Accelerated Learning for 21^st Century principles;
Creating highly innovative multidisciplinary MBA, MSc and PhD Applied 3E Programmes, linked to research in specific disciplines, with an express mandate to spin off and scale up related cross-sector enterprises;
Facilitating national and international knowledge exchange, partnerships, and research collaborations that embed 3E skills in all disciplines;

For this purpose, emulating current innovations in key professional disciplines like health and well-being, real estate, and Silicon-Valley style ICT and e-commerce;
Convening Centres of Excellence in 3E Education in Worldhero 3E affiliate universities and other higher educational institutions;
Training up Directors of such centres globally in international executive education schools, conferences and workshops that enable them to create winning blueprints for radically innovating the 3E agenda in their respective organisations;
Developing winning research grants and attracting funding through strategic national socio-economic development, research, teaching, and business development projects;
Linking innovative 3E pedagogies and enabling Global Research and Teaching Excellent Framework (GLORETEF), which reinforce cross-sector national innovation systems and socio-economic development;
Serving as go-to research consultants for innovative 3E education programmes in higher institutions globally;
Making significant difference in socio-economic development agenda by linking 7E education to 2030 UN Strategic Development Goals, through a long-running global project entitled:
An Oselux Plan for Rejuvenating Developing Countries’ Higher Education: Achieving High-Impact 7E Capacities, National Socio-Economic Development, Research-Teaching Excellence, and Engaged Scholarship Across Academia, Industry and Government;
Publishing globally-leading academic papers, professional articles and training manuals in ICRED;
Emerging perspectives in 7E research;
7E Education and society.

Related Spin-Offs

The Innovation and Creativity Research Programmes explores creative learning, teaching and assessment (LTA) innovations and enterprise development initiatives of institutions (HEIs) and private sector organisations.

Drawing perspectives from all subject matter-based schools, the programmes integrate the theory and practices of innovation and creativity in socio-economic development, particularly in creating and maintaining national innovation systems fit for the 21st Century. The link between a national innovation system and elements of a high knowledge economy index (KEI) is also studied.

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International Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (ICED): this centre will operate digitally and work with Centres for Entrepreneurship Development (CEDs) in Nigerian and other African countries’ higher educational institutions, to innovate their offerings with innovations in the School of 7E Education; the focus will be to embed 7E education in all disciplines in addition to traditional enterprise development programmes e.g. gaps years during which students are placed in industry and supported to build businesses towards earning BTechs alongside BSc/BA degrees for example; students can also elect to work on preferred ICRED digital internationalising firms listed in the School of Global Business; the ICED will collaborate with individual institutions’ CEDs on projects they are interested in;
National Careers and Enterprise Companies (NCECs): Supports countries in their quest to embed 7E ideals in their educational systems linked to effective careers counselling from secondary schools up to universities; will work closely with the Oselux Job Creation Centres (OJCCs) in the School of Global Business to fast-pace the activities; for this, the ICRED blueprints for the NCECs and OJCCs will be franchise globally in respective countries; see also the supporting ideas in the Model 7E Institutes below;
African Higher Education Academy (AHEA): devoted to embedding RETLACCS Curriculum Innovations and educational technologies across Africa, in partnership with UK Higher Education Academy and similar organisations around the world;
The AHEA will nurture national chapters in all the African countries e.g. Nigerian Higher Education Academy (NHEA), Ghana Higher Education Academy (GHEA) – a hub and spoke model that diffuses RETLACCS innovations and myriad ICRED learning technologies across borders in Africa;
There will be Student Members, Fellows and Senior Fellows of these academies according as individual students, academics and professionals distinguish themselves on set criteria of professional standards which combine the UK Professional Standards used by the UK HEA and unique measures of excellence in knowledge work drawn from ICRED’s School of 7E Education, including RETLACCS Innovations checklists, African Research and Teaching Excellence Framework (ARETEF(c)) within the ambience of a Global Research and Teaching Excellence Framework (GLORETEF(c)), which are designed by the ICRED;
7E Special Interest Groups in these societies are devoted to particular 7E Research and Enterprise Schools, with activities that are linked with other global higher education organisations and societies;

Model 7E Institutes: finishing schools for vocational skills in all 7E disciplines, modelled similar to leading medical education programmes (e.g. London and the Barts School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Manchester Medical School, University of Manchester Nursing School);
Related Skills for Students Graduates and Start-Ups (SSGS); see the SSGS Academy section of this site for more details;
7E Advanced Polytechnic Institutes (APIs): trailblazing polytechnic institutes in selected disciplines which implement an ideal polytechnic education curricula with 3E-enabled BTechs, MTechs and DTEchs, that deliver core offerings comparable to the likes of MIT and Caltech, with deep training in the creation and management of research-informed innovative technologies which address global challenging problems across academia, industry and government;

7E Advanced Colleges of Education (ACEs): same remits as the APIs but focused on training 3E-enabled secondary school teachers;
Linked to 7E Professors and 7E Master Tutors, see website notes on these entities and refer to the Global Tuition and Research Support Services (GLOTRESS) website, www.glotress.co.uk., which is a global online training laboratory for the teachers in addition to graduate degrees offered in the School of 3E Education.
Oselux International Kin-Prims (OIKPs): Model kindergartens and primary schools which deliver UK Eton-style education affordable to all, and led by the best Super Heads of school who are trained on 3E Accelerated Learning Protocols.
The aim is to fix the rot in foundation-level education which percolates right up to higher levels especially in developing countries like Nigeria;
The schools are feeder schools to the 3E colleges of education polytechnics and universities globally;
Franchises of these schools are strictly regulated and inspected to meet the 3E inimitable standards in what is clearly a McDonaldisation and democratisation of highest quality education in the world which is puzzlingly affordable to all learners;
ICRED Higher Education News: devoted to developing actionable research and enterprise solutions to emerging challenges and Big Issues in Higher Education, pooled from continuing readings in news media, for example The Chronicles of Education News;
ICRED Outreach Programmes: which mimic and extend current Afrihero Outreach Programmes, and inspire the next generation of youths, students, and workers on 2030 digital skills and portfolio, including perspectives from ICRED’s SSGS, Digital Skills Foundry, International Business Analysis Academy, International Coding School, ICRED School of Global Business and related born-global firms, as well as the above spin-offs and those from other ICRED Research and Enterprise Development Schools;
ICRED Star Power Initiatives: using metaphors and business strategies from sports and entertainment industries and personal business models of such global stars as Beckham, Federer, Nadal, Usain Bolt, Serena, Beyoncé, Rihanna, to develop equally powerful higher education movements, followership, and stadium-like 7E Training and Innovation Labs in key regions of the world, especially developing countries
ICRED International Placements and Scholarships (IPS): working with ICRED 3E Superb Tutors and 3E Professors to guide, place and secure admissions and scholarships for prospective university students into leading global universities, for example the proposed ICRED-ICMCS The International Open University (TIOU), Oxbridge, UCL, LSE, Imperial College, all UK Russell Group universities, and UK Ivy League universities like MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, and Michigan
Secondary Further & Higher Education Links (SFHE Links): Grooming the base for effective diffusion of curriculum innovations through national education systems.

Interdisciplinary PhD Research with 3E foci

We institute ongoing research on a system of topics entitled

Emerging Trends and Influences in the Pedagogy of Different Disciplines: Perspectives from Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Development and Employability.

Hence, we have the following specific topic hubs some of which have spokes in specific disciplines which they encompass. The aim is to professionalise all disciplines by imbuing their learning with pervasive 3E skills. The topics are jointly supervised by global academic and industry experts from the 3E RED School and other 3E schools that cover the disciplines.

Indicative PhD topics

1, The Pedagogy of Divinities and Philosophy of Knowledge Production