Pupils into professionals
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Edinburgh Napier University offers a Work Based Learning Module which integrates professionalism into the various courses. In this presentation I praise the merits of doing a placement.
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Pupils into professionals
- 1. Turning Pupils Into Professionals
- 2. It’s a long way to the top If you want to rock & roll
- 3. How do you get there? ?
- 4. Don’t waste your education @ Edinburgh Napier University • Free education • HIGH job prospects • Study What You Love • Learn/Explore and Code < />
- 5. yawn
- 6. you have heard that all before im not gonna tell you something you already know!
- 7. 9 reasons why you should get out the classroom
- 8. 1 – real world experience its what theywant
- 9. 2 – improve your skills by 200% lectures are for learning, work is for working
- 10. 3 – learn how to talk! get out the comfort zone and learn life-skills
- 11. 4 – work as a team skills can be learnt from others, not just stackoverflow
- 12. 5– new tech £600 conferences and £1k Google Glass
- 13. 6 – why cycle when you can drive? Doing WBL upscales your development
- 14. 7 –Get a year ahead Many other students have to work extrato get experience
- 15. 8 – IntegratedInto Your Degree WBL module counts as 3 units – half a year
- 16. 9 – money is good! I earned £16k. My friend earnt £20k. Don’t work in Tesco
- 17. The most revolutionary change was that students sought an extension of the work experience element of courses. It would seem that work experience as an integral part of an undergraduate course offers opportunity for advancing skills and knowledge (Holmes & Miller, 2000). The students in this survey emphasised the value of practical work experience and knowledge of the work place that they had gained on placements. Most of the negative perceptions related to organisational problems and the nature of the work either being too demanding or too mundane. Overall, benefits seemed to far outweigh drawbacks. The indication is that students feel greater security with undertaking higher education if they can recognise the employment links Derek Glover , Sue Law & Andrea Youngman (2002) Graduateness and Employability: student perceptions of the personal outcomes of university education, Research in Post-Compulsory Education,
- 18. The most revolutionary change was that students sought an extension of the work experience element of courses. It would seem that work experience as an integral part of an undergraduate course offers opportunity for advancing skills and knowledge (Holmes & Miller, 2000). The students in this survey emphasised the value of practical work experience and knowledge of the work place that they had gained on placements. Most of the negative perceptions related to organisational problems and the nature of the work either being too demanding or too mundane. Overall, benefits seemed to far outweigh drawbacks. The indication is that students feel greater security with undertaking higher education if they can recognise the employment links Derek Glover , Sue Law & Andrea Youngman (2002) Graduateness and Employability: student perceptions of the personal outcomes of university education, Research in Post-Compulsory Education, translation from this survey: • Students want a useful education – jobs! • Students found the placement vital • Students like employment links • Students want good placements
- 20. • degree-relatedexperience • networking& professionalism • meet cool people who will offer you jobs • do what you love and specialize for honours
- 21. the shift for me
- 22. • Discovered UX design • Changedcourse from Software Eng to Web Design & Dev • Part-Time at a start-up • Honours project doing UX
- 23. • Discovered UX design • Changedcourse from Software Eng to Web Design & Dev • Part-Time at a start-up • Honours project doing UX start now
- 24. • Discovered UX design • Changedcourse from Software Eng to Web Design & Dev • Part-Time at a start-up • Honours project doing UX LINKED-IN difficulty: EASY difficulty: MEDIUM CV difficulty: HARD PORTFOLIO
- 25. Maureen Ronaldson placement organiser Career Services interview & cv help you are not alone it is not weak to ask for help get a kickass CV
- 26. • Discovered UX design • Changedcourse from Software Eng to Web Design & Dev • Part-Time at a start-up • Honours project doing UX don’t waste your 4 years see yourself as a professional get the jobs you want