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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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5 Reasons Why Students Should Embrace MOOC Opportunities

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The educational arena has been changing with the increased availability of courses offered through MOOCS, Massive Open Online Courses. I proposed some general information about the advantages of MOOCs, as part of an article on the Birmingham City University School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks blog. But these large scale courses, usually delivered around the …

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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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Using Professional Online Presences To Enhance Computing Student Employability

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At the HEA STEM Conference 2013, I presented on the work that I’ve doing helping students to develop a Professional Presence, as well as some initial evaluation about the success of that approach towards helping students to become more employable. The research showed that students were engaging with setting up LinkedIn profiles, creating their own …

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