Tag Archives: employability
How To Make the Most of YOUR Student Experience
Q: What is ‘the student experience’? A: It’s what you make it! This week, I held a workshop at the University of Glamorgan about ‘the student experience’. I’ve mentioned Glamorgan in the past for their brilliant Glam Insight, where students … Continue reading
The Possible Impossibility of Employability…
Let me guess. If you’re a uni student reading this, am I right in thinking you’d like to be employable once you graduate? It’s probably fair to say the vast majority of students want better job and career choices as … Continue reading
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Edulinks – Week ending 20 May 2011
This week, NUS and CBI jointly launched a guide to employability skills. The publication, Working Towards Your Future, is definitely worth a download. As the NUS/CBI guide was released, engineering consultancy, Atkins, called on universities to help students more with … Continue reading
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Looking Beyond Employability
I found this tucked away near the end of an article in the Independent on Sunday: “Students should learn not how to win arguments but how to ask subversive questions of authority, assess evidence and find the truth. They should … Continue reading
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Providing information, advice and guidance to students
My previous post asked if you were taking too many study risks. Arthur made a great point in the comments: “The focus on your education should be increasing your capabilities, not getting through a series of assessment tasks. If you … Continue reading
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