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Category Archives: Employability
The opportunity to work with the Digitally Ready team
The Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies (EEB) Framework and our work in Creating a Global Agenda in the Biosciences and the Internationalisation Change Programme (ICP) , have recently enabled us to work with the Digitally Ready team. Via the small project … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Small project funding scheme, Staff-student partnerships
Tagged Existing and Emerging Biotechnologies (EEB) Framework, International Change Programme (ICP), Internationalisation, Katerina Lazidou, Student employability, Student engagement, Tee Nadan, VLE
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Digitally Ready for 2013
In attempting to write this blog post to sum up what 2012 has meant for Digitally Ready, the JISC-funded project here at the University of Reading to support staff and students in their use of digital technologies, I quickly found … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Heroes, Dissemination, Employability, Meetings & Events, Research, Staff-student partnerships, Training & resources, Work/Academic placements
Tagged 'Sharing Good Practice' event, Academic Practice Programme (APP), Centre for Staff Training and Development (CSTD), Digital Development Forum (DDF), Digital Development Team, Julian Park, Letters to Santa, Nadja Guggi, Neil Morris, Rachel Glover, Sir David Bell KCB, Teaching & Learning Showcase events
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Placements: Partnership with industry
Recently the School of Construction Management and Engineering (SCME) held a half-day workshop on ‘Industrial Partnership Companies and SCME’ to showcase their placement students. The workshop included presentations from four Part 3 students that had been on placement over the … Continue reading
Digital Community: Art at Reading launches OSCAR
Art at Reading has a new digital platform to connect staff and students. OSCAR, the Online Studio Community at Reading, has been developed to support the vast range of teaching and learning activities that happen across studio modules in Art, within the … Continue reading
Placement options at Reading: Silchester and Real Jobs
The second part of my research into digital literacies for student employability has focussed on in-curricular placements here at Reading. Every undergraduate programme now has an embedded placement option. The ‘Skirts’ model includes maxi, mini and micro placements. A maxi … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Heroes, Employability, Research, Technology in fieldwork, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Amanda Clarke, Berkshire Primary Care Trust, Department of Archaeology, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, Kindle, Michelle Brooks, Paragon Community Housing, Rachel Glover, Real Jobs scheme, Richard Johnson, Sam Winslet, Silchester
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SEED placements: showcasing success
Last week SEED students were invited to present about their experiences at the SEED Showcase event. The evening was an opportunity for placement supervisors, employers, parents and fellow students to see the kind of things a SEED placement entails. There were … Continue reading
Posted in Employability, Meetings & Events, Placement student showcase, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Emily Shaw, George Brewster, Harriet Taylor, James Buller, Kara Swift, Knowledge Transfer Centre (KTC), Opsview, Peter Finnan, Rachel Glover, Seb Lear, Shay Mullineaux, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED)
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Placement showcase: Rachel Glover
Subscribers of this blog will have followed the adventures of our placement student, the fabulous Rachel Glover, who has been working with us since June on the student employability aspects of the Digitally Ready project. Rachel has now started her … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Research, Video, Work/Academic placements
Tagged ALT Conference (ALT-C), Assessing work placements, Department of Politics & International Relations, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, Experiences with Digital Literacies, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, RAISE, Sir David Bell KCB, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED), Video
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Digital literacies for student employability: Spotlight on work placements
Rachel and I were invited to speak at the Teaching & Learning Showcase on ‘Assessing work placements’ here at Reading yesterday. The showcase events are a series of informal lunchtime gatherings which provide an opportunity for colleagues to share T & … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Feedback, Dissemination, Employability, Meetings & Events, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Assessing work placements, Cindy Becker, Department of English Literature, Developing Effective E-Learning: The Development Pyramid, Digital Literacies for Student Employability, Hannah Jones, Helen Beetham, Joy Collier, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, Rhona Sharpe, School of Agriculture Policy and Development, Teaching & Learning Showcase events
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Placement showcase: Carrie Philp
Continuing my placement showcase series, I interviewed Carrie Philp about her experiences during her UROP placement and how she used social media to recruit students for her project. A third year Psychology student, Carrie, who only heard about the opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Placement student showcase, Research, Work/Academic placements
Tagged Careers Placements Experience Centre, Carrie Philp, Employability Ambassadors, Newcastle University, Rachel Glover, RAISE, School of Psychology &Clinical Language Sciences, Sir David Bell KCB
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Developing students’ digital skills through placements – Maximising student engagement
I have previously blogged about my trip to ALT-C in Manchester. In the same week I went to the RAISE Conference in Southampton. The Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement day was my first opportunity to speak about some of … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Employability, Placement student showcase, Research, Video, Work/Academic placements
Tagged ALT Conference (ALT-C), Developing students’ digital skills through placements, Nadja Guggi, Rachel Glover, RAISE, Student employability, Student engagement, Summer Employment Experience and Discovery (SEED), University of Southampton
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