Extracurricular learning opportunities are an important complementary part of entrepreneurship teaching and learning provision. An entrepreneurial and innovative HEI should offer a range of informal learning opportunities to students to inspire individuals to act entrepreneurially.

Supporting entrepreneurial behaviour can be challenging, as it might not be fully compliant with the existing rules and regulations of the HEI. In the short term, flexibility is needed to accept entrepreneurial behaviour and to support it. In the long run, the HEI must foster an institutional environment that matches the entrepreneurial behaviour of its students and staff.

It is common for HEIs to deliver entrepreneurship education throughout the curricula, either through entrepreneurship courses or by embedding entrepreneurship within other subject areas. But this is not the only approach. Entrepreneurship education can also be delivered through extra-curricular training, learning opportunities such as business competitions, business simulations and providing other opportunities to learn from experience.

Student involvement in the entrepreneurial agenda is a key component of this process of change. Students can create a ‘buzz’ for entrepreneurship, which in turn increases student demand for entrepreneurship activities. They should also be involved in designing adequate quality assurance and evaluation systems, as well as actively taking part in the continuous feedback and improvement process. Students add immense value to the entrepreneurial agenda if given the opportunity and support to act. However, they are often considered as beneficiaries and not as partners and creators of entrepreneurial teaching and learning. There are numerous ways in which students can generate engagement in the entrepreneurial agenda, for example:

• A student-run ‘Start-Up Cafe’ on campus, or coffee and canteen facilities
• Paid student "entrepreneurship interns" that act as student ambassadors and work across campus to promote and support entrepreneurship actions, and

Students can engage in social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, both for the HEI’s entrepreneurial agenda and education and start-up support.