Tag: skills
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 [...]
A recent project focussing on the delivery of education in Communication Skills had been developed with the School of Optometry and lectures and workshops delivered to the September 2009 first year undergraduates for both schools. This is currently being evaluated although initial findings are that students welcomed the opportunity to study together on an interdisciplinary [...]
Completed Projects:
Confidence and competence in medicines-based calculations in PHRMY, MATHS and SONMS
This project aims to explore the confidence and perceived competence of students when performing medicines-based calculations, and inform the development of future teaching materials to enhance skills in this area. Dr Coulman will present the project’s outcomes so far at a QUILT Seminar in February 2010. Dr S A Coulman (PHRMY), Dr D N John [...]
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Diagnostic tests and competencies in BIOSI
We have introduced the use of diagnostic tests for key academic skills, and plan to expand these in future years to include other areas as well as providing a transcript of key competencies. These tests provide essential feedback for students on their competence in fundamental skills such as maths, written skills and comprehension, and identifies [...]
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Early engagement in SOCSI
There are several initiatives in place in the School of Social Sciences that ensure students coming to study as undergraduates at Cardiff are made to feel a sense of engagement and belonging that can greatly enhance their learning experience here. The ‘Engagement Trail’ starts pre-arrival, when students can participate in the SOCSI Undergrad Blog, and [...]
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 [...]
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Fresher’s induction week with an emphasis on skills in MATHS
The revised arrangements for Freshers’ induction week reported in 2007-8 have been further developed, and were well received this year by the incoming students in MATHS. These sessions provide students with the opportunity to interact informally with their peers upon entry to university, as well as giving advice on the acquisition of essential mathematical skills [...]
Downloadable version of this Guidance Note Information literate people will demonstrate an awareness of how they gather, use, manage, synthesise and create information and data in an ethical manner and will have the information skills to do so effectively (SCONUL 2011). Information literacy: • is applicable to all disciplines, learning environments and all levels of [...]
Some programmes within the School of Healthcare Studies have an established history of IPL both within Cardiff University and with neighbouring institutions. The IPL programme currently running is incremental in nature and starts on the first day of enrolment. It demonstrates to students the commitment to establishing a shared value base and the provision of [...]
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Introductory study skills sessions for Year 1 students in BIOSI
We would recommend the use of introductory sessions during enrolment week for new students, covering study skills. There is an increasing gap between what is required of an undergraduate student in terms of approaches to studying, and what is provided to students at school. Managing the transition from one educational culture to another should be [...]
Practice Snippets: First Year Experience, Recruitment, Retention and Induction:
Introductory study skills sessions for Year 1 students in BIOSI
We would recommend the use of introductory sessions during enrolment week for new students, covering study skills. There is an increasing gap between what is required of an undergraduate student in terms of approaches to studying, and what is provided to students at school. Managing the transition from one educational culture to another should be [...]
The external examiner identified the use of a panel to mark presentations in the module Employment tribunal skills and discrimination law as a particularly good example of the way to assess verbal presentations fairly. LEARN (APRE) 2008/09 Jan Stephens
The aim of this workshop was to encourage individuals to recognise their abilities to study at M level and to offer support. The increase in numbers this coming year (2009) demonstrates that our widening access and marketing strategy is working. Home and international students attended the workshop. SONMS (APRE) 2008/09 Rhian Barnes, Judith Benbow, Colin [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
History and Welsh History consider that the expansion of generic and skill-specific training, notably in the form of subject-based research skills modules (most of which are 10 credits, and linked to taught options) provides students with transferable skills and appropriate preparation for research not just at Masters but also at higher degree level. HISAR (APRE) [...]
Practice Snippets: Skills, PDP, Employability:
Skills programme for first year students in JOMEC and SOCSI
JOMEC has been working with SOCSI on skills programmes for undergraduate students. This is an extracurricular activity designed to instil confidence in students in terms of employability skills. The students who have signed up are planning on writing a pre-arrival skills information packet for incoming students, which they will place on the JOMEC website. Other [...]
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 [...]
Politics has introduced an innovative team-taught information literacy programme in conjunction with INSRV. Two core modules have explicitly integrated an element of information skills training into the curriculum objectives, teaching and learning content and, crucially, assessment. Recent feedback from one of these modules indicates that 86.6% of the students (134 respondents) either agreed or agreed [...]
The UN Model Club, Cardiff was set up in November 2007. It is a simulation of the United Nations. It aims is to allow students with an interest in international relations to learn through guided role play exercises about the United Nations (the key global organisation in international relations) and also about key global issues [...]