• Funded opportunities to enhance employability

    The provision of funded additional qualifications, e.g. first aid and coaching qualifications, to enhance students’ employability What happens? Students on the Working with Children 5-11 programme will be offered funded opportunities to enhance their employability and to widen their knowledge of potential career pathways. What is the likely impact? This programme has recruited a group…

  • Students as Digital Leaders

    The selection of students as ‘Digital Leaders’ (DL) to support staff and other students in using digital learning technologies What happens? Students apply for a DL role and go through a selection procedure which includes a presentation. They work with the Department’s TEL Lead with the intention of supporting tutors’ use of TEL and being…

  • Alumni to support transitions and improve retention

    As part of the Department’s Careers and Employability Week for all Level 5 and 6 students, the Department engages with alumni, particularly their involvement in the Careers and Employability Week and fieldtrips What happens? A number of alumni deliver short presentations on their career path since graduation and how they have applied the knowledge and…

  • Alternative assessment

    The Department proposes to collaborate with the Department of Computer Science to explore the potential use of the CAVE resource for developing virtual field trips to 3D landscapes, simulating natural and environmental hazard scenarios etc., to support and enhance students’ experience of fieldwork and hazard management. What is the likely impact? Such virtual fieldtrips would…

  • Embedding research skills

    Embedding of research skills at all Levels of the programme Embedding research skills at all Levels allows for a gradual progression in the sophistication of techniques and approaches introduced and applied as a student progresses through the programme, so that they have a range of research skills at Level 6 that can be applied in…

  • Developing a Work Placement Module

    Work Placement Module The Work Placement Module was allied to relevant employment areas and also often utilised to provide questions for dissertation work with results reported to site if appropriate. What was the impact? Enthused by experience of seeing subject skills in work context. If dissertation evolves from placement, there is satisfaction in addressing an…

  • Engaging students in authentic programme development

    Engaging students in programme development This project involved detailed and thorough consultation with current and prospective students in line with Competition and Markets Authority guidance. The change of programme and award title to Creative Performance was identified as beneficial for students through a particularly rigourous process of consultation. What happened? We conducted an internal survey…