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How Can We Improve Industrial Sandwich Year Placements For Computing Students?

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The Higher Education Academy project, Improving Industrial Sandwich Year Placements For Computing Students, is one of the most rewarding ones that I’ve worked on. The final report, joint authored by Kawal Banga (my Research Associate) and me has been published, adds to the volume of research on student placements and employments, and ties in well …

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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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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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