Napier, MSCNewsWire, 3 June 2016 -No single issue weighs quite so heavily on the minds of academia now as the matter of adjusting their teaching with the demands of the job market. Victoria University’s Global Enterprise Experience scheme blends the essential ideology of students with the work ethic demands of the wealth creating sector and does so by mixing in social imperatives and especially those represented by the emerging nations and the pre-emergent ones.

Whether planned or not, the emphasis on the distaff side in this grass roots social enterprise scheme becomes instantly obvious at the yearly awards ceremony. Females dominate-- and so they should. Because in the emergent and sub-emergent economies it is women who quite literally do the heavy lifting.

In this scheme which also involves Otago University groups of students collectively devise and then implement business plans and then follow through from concept to execution in countries such as Rwanda, Cameroon, and Burundi.

Nations such as Armenia are also sites for Enterprise Experience endeavour. The scheme, which has UNESCO sponsorship, is particularly active in Iran where it is focussed on adherents of the Bahai sect which is banned there.

At the awards event in Parliament at which Steven Joyce, the minister of economic development presided, the plight of participants in Iran, who are jailed if discovered, was given special emphasis.

University officials tend to describe the “civic” rather than the idealist responsibilities of universities in their increasingly difficult curriculum-jobs equation.

The Global Enterprise scheme provides a potent solution in applying free model telecommunications reticulation to stream and concentrate human resources into defined cost-efficient enterprises.

The scheme in its 13th year can be seen now to have anticipated the coalescing so evident today of student idealism with the anger of mercantilist practitioners of all ages and aimed at the dominance of banks.

The financial sector until quite recent times the servant of industry has now become manifestly the master of industry and at no peril to its participants. It has apportioned to its officials the rewards once considered appropriate for entrepreneurs, the risk-takers.

With micro-finance, think crowd funding, a shared and universal objective, and which by definition underpins the Global Enterprise Experience, the scheme has identified the missing and unifying link between students and commerce.

This is the deepening resentment of banks and a shared desire to put them back in their place.

Pictured above at the Global Enterprise Experience awards ceremony at Parliament’s banqueting hall are Victoria University vice chancellor Grant Guilford with Steven Joyce MP with finalist and (below) organising official adjunct professor Dai Gilbertson with guests.

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