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14 September 2005
On September 14, 2005 Knowledge Dock was awarded the title of Best Agency in London and the South East for the Shell Technology and Enterprise Programme (STEP). The programme helps small and medium-sized businesses develop their potential by utilising the high level skills of the UKs brightest undergraduates. By bringing new skills and focused enthusiasm to their employers, they help businesses to kick-start and manage development ideas.
more about Knowledge Dock: One STEP Above... >
08 September 2005
Rather than hitting the beach, enterprising university students from East London and Essex have spent their summer sweating over intensive work placements with local companies and organisations as part of the 2005 Shell Technology Enterprise Programme (STEP), organised by Knowledge Dock at the University of East London (UEL).
more about Local winners STEP up at UEL enterprise awards ceremony... >
19 August 2005
Five of enterprising UEL graduates have been awarded grants of up to £1,000 each by the Haberdashers' Company of the City of London to help them start up their own businesses ranging from fashion to film making.
more about High Five for HotHatch as UEL entrepreneurs win Haberdashers' Company awards... >
18 August 2005
With esteemed guests such as Sir Terence Conran, Dick Powell of Seymour Powell and most of the design community, the place to be seen was at the New Designers Exhibition preview night at The Business Design Centre, Islington, London.
more about Knowledge Dock support Product Design Graduates @ New Designers... >
21 July 2005
Budding entrepreneurs in East London now have access to an exciting new resource - the HotHatch Business Generator at the University of East London's Knowledge Dock. On 20th June, more than 250 business people, entrepreneurs, students and VIPs took part in a Festival of Entrepreneurship at UEL's Docklands campus. Star speakers included Baroness Uddin of Bethnal Green, Ian Livingstone, Founder of Eidos, Al Gosling of the Extreme Group and Pat Curran, CEO and co-founder of The Bell Group.
more about HotHatch opens for business at UEL... >
20 June 2005
Bill Rammell, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, drove the 'Golden Bolt' on the University of East London's new Business School and Knowledge Dock Centre, currently under construction on the waterfront of the Royal Albert Dock, at a ceremony on Monday 20 June.
more about Education Minister inaugurates new Docklands campus development... >
