…for all Teesside University students to raise awareness of the importance of working with industry to first and second year students through ‘ExpoTential’ and ‘ExpoTalent’. I will always be incredibly grateful to ExpoTalent for the opportunities it has provided me, as fairly early on into my placement I was offered a part-time job during my final year at university based on my skills and work attitude alone. This meant that I could continue workin…
…Cleve was born and educated in Guyana, South America. He came to the UK in 1969 to work in the electronic industry and by 1976 he had been headhunted by Siemens Ltd, to take on overall responsibility at the Data & Communications Service Group. By 1980, Cleve had become Head of Power Engineering Service at Congleton in Cheshire. Later, Cleve chose to concentrate on his own business – and set up the financial services company Openwork. Before accep…
…thought innovatively. It is even possible that they have invented an entirely new art form. Their ‘barbershock’ performance turned out to be among the highlights of the evening at the Southbank Centre. Posing incognito as waiters, the students electrified the room when they burst into song after one of their colleagues ‘fainted’ while presenting flowers to keynote speakers Darren Henley (CEO of Arts Council England) and John Kampfner (CEO of the C…
…ous high-grossing films including The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, Life of Pi, Prometheus and Skyfall. The NCCA has made full details of the research publicly available in an ‘open source’ format so that it can be adopted as widely as possible. Back to Real World Impact …
…was really exciting about my experience in Finland was the idea that if these university-based entrepreneurial hubs (which are growing in number) were to connect then surely their value would only increase? And ultimately, isn’t making these connections what universities are all about?…
…to the future success of our business. Our commitment to recruiting diversely is more than just a sound bite. We have taken decisive action, and a lot of it! We removed the use of application forms in the interview process to ensure candidates are measured on their talent, rather than their background. We have broadened our reach, visiting more universities than ever before (we will be physically visiting in excess of 37 universities in 2014/15 an…
…d into the search for a job. This is partly explained by some employers’ habit of recruiting only from a small group of universities, and thus missing out on a large proportion of the excellent, skilled graduates that are to be found throughout the whole higher education sector. But there are other factors at play too, which universities can address by ensuring that people from disadvantaged backgrounds are supported across the whole student lifec…
…n students. Funding for widening participation activity must be maintained if universities are to recruit diversely and support students to succeed. Case study – Sophie Cousens Sophie, an AAA student, battled with her teachers to apply for a place on the world leading course of Marine Biology at Plymouth University. Plymouth has won prizes for its world-class marine and maritime research, teaching and training, and boasts excellent resources inc…
…ions of those partnerships and promote the University of Salford and MediaCityUK as major innovators in media and digital technologies within the UK and across the world. Our students are not just the drivers of that – they are also, individually and collectively, the beneficiaries. As with some of our existing alumni, now returning to us to engage with the MediaCityUK campus, the next generation of graduates will also drive value back into the tr…
…st of the UK’s advantage in design teaching, whilst we need to be sure we are also teaching a fundamental understanding of materials and making from a practice led approach to design that is fully integrated with new technology. Only then will we build upon that difference that makes design both important and distinctive globally from other disciplines….
