The University of Sheffield’s management school has been awarded a £10,000 grant by HEIF2’s Business in the Curriculum initiative to market opportunities for businesses to engage with teaching activities.

The project – which will be lead by Dr Kirsten Holmes, course leader of arts and heritage management and Dr Mike Simpson, business studies lecturer – is designed to embed employability in the curriculum. Organisations will be encouraged to contribute to both course content creation and delivery across the management school’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

The funding will finance the creation of a website and a promotional leaflet.

“We already work with many leisure organisations but are always looking for new group projects or dissertation topics for our MA Arts and Heritage Management, MA Leisure Management and MSc Sports and Recreation Management courses,” said Holmes.

Holmes and Simpson aim to have projects for students ready for the 2005/6 academic year and then to evaluate the initiative in June 2006. Previously students have worked with Rotherham Council's Culture, Leisure and Lifelong Learning service.