{"id":5013,"date":"2018-04-26T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/lead\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2018-04-26T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:57:09","slug":"news-venture-matrix-named-as-runners-up-in-guardian-university-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/2018\/04\/26\/news-venture-matrix-named-as-runners-up-in-guardian-university-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Venture Matrix named as runners-up in Guardian University Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/lead\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4910\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/2018\/04\/26\/news-venture-matrix-named-as-runners-up-in-guardian-university-awards\/vm-full-team-cropped\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped.jpg?fit=5764%2C2060&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"5764,2060\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1474457246&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;256&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VM full team cropped\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped.jpg?fit=1024%2C366&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4910\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/lead\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped-300x107.jpg?resize=300%2C107&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped.jpg?resize=300%2C107&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped.jpg?resize=768%2C274&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped.jpg?resize=1024%2C366&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team-cropped.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Venture Matrix team, who have\u00a0been named as runners-up in the employability and entrepreneurship category in the Guardian University Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Now in their sixth year, the awards recognise the universities that inspire students and transform communities. The employability and entrepreneurship categories were\u00a0merged this year to illustrate how universities are weaving these two strands together to teach students to both find and create jobs after graduating.<\/p>\n<p>Venture\u00a0Matrix\u00a0has supported thousands of students to put their skills and knowledge into practice, by providing the opportunity to work on real life activities with\u00a0organisations from the local, national and international community,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/2018\/apr\/24\/employability-and-entrepreneurship-award-winner-and-runners-up\">Read the Guardian article in full<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the\u00a0work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/study-here\/why-choose-us\/employability\/employability-is-built-into-your-course\/venture-matrix\">Venture Matrix<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 You can also follow\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/venturematrix\/\">Venture Matrix blog<\/a> or on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/venturematrix\"><span dir=\"ltr\">@venturematrix<\/span><\/a> to receive updates on their innovative work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our Venture Matrix team, who have\u00a0been named as runners-up in the employability and entrepreneurship category in the Guardian University Awards. Now in their sixth year, the awards recognise the universities that inspire students and transform communities. The employability and entrepreneurship categories were\u00a0merged this year to illustrate how universities are weaving these two strands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":4911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[6,30,138],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-employability","tag-venture-matrix","tag-work-related-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/files\/2018\/03\/VM-full-team.jpg?fit=2498%2C1662&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ctLQ-1iR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/add\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}