Prof Geoff Layer DVC (Academic) LTA Conference 2009

1. New opportunities $1 we’re looking at finding or putting forward graduate internships within the University for particular projects working with local employers – we’ll try and make sure that happens in different firms as well and that internships become a form of apprenticeship that enables students to gain that very valuable detailed and prolonged work experience We’re looking at issues to do with employability generally, so, for example, should we create a work academy for the digital industry whereby, for our students in computing, informatics and media, we create our own company where the students go out and get work such as website design etc?