Celebrating ‘digital’ at Reading
We still have a few places available for our showcase event ‘Digitally Ready: Celebrating our achievements’ which will take place next Monday, 15 April 11.00 am to 2.30 pm. As the DigitallyRead More…
Online resources for physical and life sciences students
Even more online support has been made available for students here at Reading seeking work placement and graduate employment. A new online tool dedicated to helping students find opportunities within the life sciencesRead More…
Virtual careers fairs
The Careers, Placement and Experience Centre (CPEC) here at Reading has invested in virtual fair technology, which has enabled the service to extend its traditional offer of careers fairs and provide studentsRead More…
(Video) Lessons learnt the hard way last forever
Hello, I am Katerina Lazidou, a research student working on a small project funded by the Digitally Ready team. This small project is being conducted for the School of Biological Sciences hereRead More…
Placement support online – for staff and for students
Our research study into digital literacies for student employability, focusing on WRPL and the University’s placement schemes, revealed that many students are as yet unaware of the full range of opportunities onRead More…
From paper (lots of it) to pixels
A distinguishing feature of the BA programme in Typography are the professional assignments we run with external clients – our Real Jobs scheme. These ‘in-house placements’ allow inexperienced students to deal withRead More…
Academic publishing and interviewing: first steps
I took my first steps into the world of academic writing and publishing last week when my supervisor informed me that we are going to submit my work on the Modular TrainingRead More…
OPEN Project at Aberdeen
There is a very interesting project starting up at Aberdeen, below is a bit from their introduction: ‘Online Presence, Employability, Network (OPEN) is a novel project supported by the Higher Education AcademyRead More…
Internationalisation: where to for HE institutions?
Who says internationalisation in HE inevitably refers to resources and technologies. In this new digital era, to be competitive as a HE institution we have to keep up to date with educationalRead More…
Student experiences with digital literacies
Last week, the Digitally Ready team here at Reading invited staff to a workshop on ‘Students’ experiences with placements and opportunities for developing their digital literacies at the University’. Some 20 colleaguesRead More…