Tag: employability
The School of Mathematics has strong links with the Cardiff Careers Service. Our Year 2 students are invited, and professional training students are required, to attend a Careers Management Skills Programme. This consists of CV writing, completion of application forms, interview skills, team-working and presentation skills. MATHS (APRE) 2008/09 Dr J Williams
The City and Guilds Licentiateship offers students a means of gaining recognised accreditation for their placement experience, enhancing their profile and offering tangible evidence of professional competency and skills to prospective employers. Students undertaking a Professional Training Period spend a year in salaried employment working as a mathematician or statistician. Personal tutors visit the placement [...]
Skills in the Curriculum Most Schools already have a large number of the skills and attributes being sought by employers embedded within curricula.
The participants undertaking this project have all entered HE from careers in private and public services. Despite their expertise in professional fields, they struggled to embed employability skills development within the curricula of their HE programmes. Working closely with the CU Careers Service, the team have created a tool that will help curriculum developers embed [...]
MUSIC continues to foster links with the BBC and WNO for the wider educational benefit of its students. Students receive free admission to dress rehearsals of WNO operas and a special discount (beyond the normal student one) for selected concerts by the BBC NOW. MUSIC (APRE) 2008/09 Dr Clair Rowden, Dr Charles Wilson
Margaret Allan (PHRMY, WCPPE)
Policy Framework for the delivery of Personal Development Planning (PDP). 1. Definition 1.1. What is PDP – PDP is as “a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and/or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development”. [1] The objectives of PDP are to: [...]
Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability:
Professional development planning at induction in PGMDE
During the induction module, students are required to develop and upload their professional development plan and these are discussed and explored by peers and tutors with suggestions as to how these can be developed further. PGMDE (APRE) 2008/09 Mrs Janet MacDonald
The Diploma in Professional Studies is a vocational scheme and as such focuses on professional skills. Much of the teaching is undertaken through group workshops and ‘scenario’ based exercises. The course has strong links with industry, as most of the visiting speakers are practitioners, as are the professional examiners. The involvement of graduates from previous [...]
Russell Sandberg (CLAWS), Tom Hayes (CLAWS), Isobel Roele (CLAWS), Elen Stokes (CLAWS)
This project explored first year students’ perceptions of their need for, and likelihood of achieving, the range of employability skills for undergraduates set out in UK policy documents. First year students in three Schools were surveyed. The results suggest that ‘business awareness’ are not skills which students value or think they will achieve during their [...]