Employability

Sandwich Year Placements Within The Computing Industry: Issues And Solutions

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One of the key employability aims I have for the courses and modules that I’m responsible for is to allow students the greatest possible chance to obtain a high quality career within the Computing discipline. I particularly favour encouraging students to take an industrial sandwich year placement, to build up work experience and to capture …

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Measuring The Extent Of Online Placement Resources To Support Computing Students

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As part of a wider research project looking into Computing placements and employability, Nzinga Deenah and I conducted an investigation looking at the availability of resources online to support placement students across the sector. The argument was that by advertising these resources online, Higher Education Institutions were helping to promote and market their courses and …

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Developing Your Digital Presence For Academics

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Here’s a slideshow for material presented by Alex Spiers at a seminar at Liverpool John Moores University recently. It’s all about how academics and researchers can develop their own digital presence. The area is of particular interest to me as I’m running a workshop on Professional Presences For Academics at Birmingham City University in May. …

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Why The Computing Discipline Cares About Sandwich Year Placements

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Over the past year, I’ve been involved with the biggest research project I’ve participating in since completing my PhD. I say “involved”, as this for research I’ve been in charge of a small team of two Research Associates looking into the issues surround Sandwich Year Placements within the Computing discipline. This has been a 15 …

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