History

The National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs is a national organisation that supports and represents university enterprise societies and student entrepreneurs to drive the growth of entrepreneurship across the UK.


With youth unemployment at a record level and graduates facing unprecedented competition for the all-too-few graduate jobs that are available, it is essential that student’s and graduate’s skills, employability, and business creation potential are developed if we are to avoid a 'lost generation' of long term unemployed graduates. Enterprise and entrepreneurship education, be it in-curricular or extra-curricular is invigorating an outdated education system to ensure that students develop the confidence, the skills and the ambition required not only to start a business, but also called for repeatedly from employers of all sizes.

With the belief that university enterprise societies are an integral part of university enterprise networks - as they have the capacity to be incredible catalysts for enterprise and entrepreneurship - the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) was conceptualised and catalyzed in the summer of 2008 by Victoria Lennox and was founded in December 2008 during a meeting of twelve university enterprise society leaders from across the country including: Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, London Business School, Oxford Brookes, Kings College London, Nottingham, Essex, Warwick, University College London, London School of Economics, Kingston, and Southampton.

Founding Members