Thank you to everyone who came to the Fair Access Research workshop, Visible Students/Invisible Needs on Monday 11th July. It was really powerful and humbling to hear from students about their experiences of university — the positive and the negative. Working with students and Students’ Unions is so important for those working to transform higher… Read more »
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Organisational Learning and Widening Participation
The core ethos of BU’s Fair Access Research programme is that by working and learning together for widening participation we , as an institution and a sector, can better support marginalised people to access and succeed in higher education. We want to find out more about how widening participation is being learnt in the different institutions… Read more »
CEL delivers an FoL event in Bournemouth Lower Gardens -Education Matters: share your story
Setting up our ‘stall’ On Sunday, the CEL team braved the elements and set up a Festival of Learning stall in Bournemouth Lower Gardens. We were asking the public to share their stories of inspirational, remarkable, stimulating, motivational learning experiences, people or events to help inform our practices within BU and the wider HE… Read more »
Careers and Employability CEL Seminar
A few weeks ago, the Careers and Employability Service delivered a well received, thought-provoking, seminar for CEL focusing on the topic of employability and career guidance. Participants were asked to consider how their own careers have evolved and whether or not they had received advice and guidance along the way. It seemed for most, their… Read more »
Fair Access Briefing: Published
The Fair Access Research programme is pleased to announce the publication of our first Fair Access Briefing! In this first briefing you get to meet the team and we share with you some of the background to the project. We share a case study of a student co-creation project exploring perceptions of disability during the admissions process and find… Read more »
Engage Competition 2016: open for entries!
The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement‘s award competition, Engage 2016, is open for entries! The closing date is Monday 18th July 2016 at 12 noon. The competition recognises and celebrates the excellent work that it is being done to share and develop research with the public. Applications are welcome from projects of all sizes and cost… Read more »
CELebrate workshop – From comfort zone to scary zone – enhancing employability skills through business simulation
Dr Roger Atkinson and myself delivered a workshop during the CELebrate event to share some of the innovative approaches we use in our teaching and learning to help prepare Level 6 Business Studies students for the world of work. The growing importance of graduate employability provided the basis of the presentation and was supported by… Read more »
Careers and Employability Workshop – Weds 27th April P406
Employability is a key driver in higher education in the UK and internationally; the majority of students want to be employable at the end of their degree programmes in order to move seamlessly into the productive world of work. The Careers and Employability service are holding a workshop on Wednesday 27th April 2016 titled “Careers… Read more »
Public Engagement: why it matters for research
Our Research and Knowledge Exchange team just held a public engagement training session led by Steve Dorney. Steve heads up the University of Southampton’s Public Engagement with Research Unit. In the session Steve his expertise to support a mix of BU academics and research students from a whole host of disciplines to know more about public engagement… Read more »
Careers and Employability seminar – “Working together to prepare your students for life after BU”
The careers and employability service will be holding a seminar on Weds 27th April at 12:00pm in PG30a discussing how we can work together to better prepare our students for life after BU. Do come along, after all, helping students to succeed in their future career is a crucial part of our role within HE.
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