INFORMATION ON THE ATLANTIC HALL (NIGERIA)-CARLETON
UNIVERSITY (CANADA) PROGRAMME
PREAMBLE
The Atlantic Hall – Carleton
University Partnership Programme is a package that has two products to offer.
Both programmes are facilitated by the Sprott School of Business of Carleton University in Canada, and are largely to help our students stand out academically and entrepreneurially in the global
world. The two products are:
i. The Students
Internship Programme and
ii. The Train-the-trainers’ Programme.
I.
STUDENTS INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME (SIP)
The Students Internship Programme is an excellent way for Atlantic Hall Students to gain real-world work experience, develop contacts in their field of choice (career pathway) and build their resume to better market themselves for future career opportunities. The SIP also offers the enrollee high-level direct supervision, training, and mentoring
from Carleton University Undergraduates and seasoned lecturers. The enrollees will also be taught clear and attainable entrepreneurship learning goals.
ii. TRAIN-THE-TRAINER ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMME
(TTEP)
The broad objective of the programme is to provide an experiential learning environment that would help to transform Atlantic Hall into an exemplar organization of entrepreneurial education in Nigeria. Secondly, to deliver a proof of concept of an international programme for high school entrepreneurship teachers in several African countries.
BENEFITS OF THESE PROGRAMMES TO TEACHERS
Ø To develop an entrepreneurial mindset to deliver their subjects to students in an entrepreneurial way thereby acting as role models to them. It also helps our teachers to shape their instructions to make them more functional, enterprising and global-centric.
Ø To acquire an entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented mindset.
Ø To further enhance teachers’ capacity to work in teams, solve problems and think creatively.
Ø To engage in or initiate a thought-provoking
conversation that elicits foundational solutions to prevailing problems.
BENEFITS OF THESE PROGRAMMES TO STUDENTS
Ø Teachers will be able to support the students to use the value proposition framework to articulate a better business model or
business idea for a company client.
Ø The SIP will also help students to identify business opportunities and to develop the right mindset to embrace it.
Ø Through the programme, the students will develop
analytics, innovative and critical thinking skills by working with their teachers to solve many fame creation problems.
Ø The programme also helps clubs to be used as
opportunities for entrepreneurship. This will give room for creating a challenge for students in their clubs to shape interdisciplinary projects