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Topics: Business enterprise

  • Business Clinic hits key milestones

    A business support programme has achieved a hat-trick of significant milestones as it extends its services across the region and beyond.

  • Is Levelling up working for the North East?

    Academics from Northumbria University have published a research paper questioning whether the Government’s flagship Levelling Up policy is working for the North East.
    Levelling Up was introduced as a flagship policy of the Boris Johnson Conservative government to address the north-south divide and focus on deep-seated inequalities in regions like the North-East.
    Using data collected from c

  • Enterprising student corners the market

    A business launched by a Northumbria University student as part of his undergraduate studies is expanding rapidly and attracting funding support.
    Having just completed his second year on an entrepreneurial degree programme at Northumbria’s Newcastle Business School, Matty Stokoe’s designer clothing business GarmGems has achieved early growth and is expanding.
    Students studying entrepr

  • Northumbria’s Summer 2022 newspaper is out now

    Packed with the latest news, features and interviews, the newspaper is the perfect way to keep up to date with the exciting developments taking place across the University.

  • Entrepreneurial talent shines at awards

    Students and graduates from Northumbria University, Newcastle, were among the winners of a high-profile awards ceremony championing entrepreneurial talent in the North East.
    Organised and hosted by learning and development agency FIRST, the Startup Awards North East celebrates early stage entrepreneurs and also facilitates significant business support, mentoring and investment opportunities. A

  • Partnership opens door to ideas and knowledge exchange for North East manufacturing

    Northumbria University’s Newcastle Business School has entered into a strategic partnership with the Advanced Manufacturing Forum (AMF).
    A community of industry experts, the AMF brings together the North-East of England manufacturing and engineering sector to engage with members and partners within the wider business community. A key remit of the AMF is to exchange ideas and knowledge to gener

  • Students explore the future of travel and tourism

    Students looking to develop future careers in travel and tourism have heard from industry experts about the range and diversity of opportunities available in the sector.
    The Institute of Travel and Tourism (ITT) Future You Roadshow, hosted by Northumbria University, was held recently in Newcastle with invited guest speakers and an audience of tourism students from Northumbria and Teesside univ

  • Ethical business partnership extended

    Northumbria University, Newcastle, has extended a partnership agreement with the North East Initiative on Business Ethics (NIBE).
    The move follows a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two organisations in 2018, formalising their collaboration on initiatives to promote the moral and commercial benefits of ethical and responsible business practice. Extending the partnership reinforce

  • Space expertise brings £1.3m big data science boost to North East

    The North East’s reputation as a major hub for space, data science and the digital industries has received a further boost with the announcement of a new £1.3 million Centre for Doctoral Training in the field of data intensive science. The Centre – known as NUdata – will be run by Northumbria and Newcastle Universities and will be supported by over 40 industrial partners.

  • Entrepreneurial sisters put their fashion business to the ultimate test

    A start-up business co-founded by a Northumbria University graduate is set to appear on the BBC’s Dragon’s Den on Thursday March 31.
    Pretty Mama was formed in 2018 by Jenny McFadden, who was in her final year of a Business and Law degree at Northumbria at the time, and her sister Alex. The sisters wanted to design and produce a collection of maternity clothes, especially for breastfeeding moth

  • Northumbria’s Autumn 2021 Newspaper is out now!

    Packed with the latest news, features and interviews, Northumbria University News is the perfect way to keep up to date with the exciting developments taking place across the University – with the latest edition available to read online now.

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