Higher Education and Employability Skills Briefing Introduction to - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Higher Education and Employability Skills Briefing  Introduction to Higher Education - Rachel Wier, University of Essex  An insight into alternative routes into careers such as traineeships, apprenticeships and Employability Skills – Hayley Hallworth, Careers Team  What does College offer students – Careers programme/Key Dates Evette Hawkins, Careers Leader

Welcome  Brief overview of how College supports students  The processes explained  Q &A session - this might be more useful individually at the end  Information can be found on our website – Documents or Career page

Website information

MOODLE- College intranet for students

MOODLE

Destinations

How College supports students through the Higher Education process  Employability Skills Tutorial – for Personal Statement  Manage your Career - Tutorial  Careers Fair (February)  Progression Event (2 Day programme) (May) – over 300 talks available about courses, personal statements, Student finance, also Apprenticeships and Jobs are covered.  Tutorials with Personal Tutor on the UCAS Application process/personal statements  Higher Education Finance Talk (late summer term)  Careers interviews  Information on MOODLE and in Bulletins

How College supports students through Job searching and applications  Employability Tutorial  Managing your Career Tutorial  Careers Fair (February each year)  Progression Event (2 Day programme) (May) – over 300 talks available about Apprenticeships and Jobs, Applications and from employers.  Tutorials with Personal Tutor on Employability skills and Employability Skills  Moodle site/ Careers Bulletin/Student Bulletin with vacancies  Careers interviews

Key Events – see handout  MIDSITE SPORTS HALL – 10.15am- 1.15pm  THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY  100+ EXHIBITORS INCLUDING: 70 UNIVERSITIES

Careers Fair 2020  Apprenticeships/Employment/Year Out Essex Police  Army/Army Reserve Frontier (Year Out/Travel provider)  Army Air Corps Reserve (677 Squadron) Grant Thornton (Accounting & Finance)  BDO LLP (Accounting/Finance) HSBC (Banking)  British Telecom (BT) (IT Apprenticeships) Investment 20/20 (Investment  Colchester Hospital Management)  Colchester Institute (Apprenticeships) Larking Gowen (Chartered Accountants)  Colchester Teacher Training Consortium London Market Group (Insurance)  Constable VAT Consultancy LLP Make Happen (Progression-relevant (Apprenticeships) students aware)  Department of Work and Pensions Project Trust (Year Out/Travel provider) (DWP) Projects Abroad (Year Out)  Edmund Carr LLP (Accounting/Finance) Royal Navy/Royal Marines/RoyalFleet  Ellisons Solicitors Auxiliary  Ensors (Accounting/Finance) Scrutton Bland (Accounting/Finance)  Essex Boys and Girls Clubs Shore Engineering (Volunteering) The Prince’s Trust (Self -employment) Whybrow Chartered Surveyors Zest - St Elizabeth Hospice (Volunteering)

Careers fair 2020 - Universities Nottingham Trent  Aberdeen Edinburgh Oxford Brookes  Essex-(including Edge Hotel School) Anglia Ruskin Pearson College London Exeter  Aston Plymouth Falmouth  Portsmouth Bangor Fashion Retail Academy Queen Mary, London  Bath Greenwich Ravensbourne, University London  Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Reading  Imperial College London Birmingham Roehampton Keele  Bishop Grosseteste, Lincoln Royal Holloway, London Kent  Salford Brighton King’s College, London Sheffield  Brighton & Sussex Medical School Lancaster Southampton  Bristol Law (University of) St Mary’s, Twickenham, London  Leeds Brunel Staffordshire Leicester  Buckinghamshire New Strathclyde Lincoln  Suffolk Canterbury Christ Church Liverpool Surrey  Cardiff London Institute of Banking & Finance Sussex  Chichester London School of Economics University Centre Colchester (Colchester Institute)  London South Bank City University, London University College London Loughborough  Coventry University for the Creative Arts (UCA) Manchester  Warwick Dundee Newcastle & Newcastle (London campus) Westminster  Durham Northampton Winchester  East Anglia Northumbria Worcester  Nottingham Edge Hill Writtle York

Progression Event (Two Day programme)  Students return from Internal summer assessments on Monday 18 th May.  For two days students will have access to over 300 talks from universities (about the application process and specific degree courses) from college staff about what’s on offer after college and from employers. There will be volunteering organisations, a range of Gap Year providers and studying abroad.  Students devise their own programme to follow and choose 13 talks

Career progression Key Events - Handout

Tutorials  Tutorials after they return from Study leave are about Progression – Employment and Higher Education.  Students are encouraged to do research and complete their CV and UCAS application  UCAS application – earliest you can apply is mid September – latest (not to be a ‘Late Applicant’) Mid November at College (to allow checking and sending before 15 th January deadline)

OXBRIDGE Group  ‘Oxbridge – the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge  Oxford and Cambridge are two of the best academic universities in the world , as they offer unrivalled teaching and learning opportunities  Applicants need to have an excellent academic record (GCSE and A Level results), be passionate about their subject, and be self-starters in terms of learning  College offers support and guidance for students who are thinking of applying – 12 th Feb Oxbridge briefing for First Years , 17 th March – Cambridge trip to Emmanuel College for First Years, 24 th March – Former Student briefing for First Years, May-June – 1 to 1 interviews with First Years, Parent Evening in July  For further information, go to the Careers Moodle site, then find ‘Oxbridge’; or email Adam Bantick (Arts subjects) or Miriam Raynor (Science and Maths subjects)’

MEDICS- Medicine, Dentistry, Vet Med or Physio  It is an additional study that is timetabled for Friday lunchtime. If planning to study one of these courses students should already be enrolled on Medics and need to see Kate Thacker in Biology to join.  The competitive nature of these courses and high Academic entry criteria. If students are not looking at 3 A predictions at A-level then they are not going to get onto a course unless they fulfil Widening Participation Criteria and even then they really need to be Bs. For most students their GCSEs will also be crucial a) because there is a minimum entry criteria and b) for there is a string correlation in GCSE score and success in the Admissions tests that both Doctors and Dentists have to sit.  For Vets work experience is compulsory and they have to have completed a minimum number of weeks. For the others work experience is advisable and a significant number have organised this at Colchester hospital. Long term voluntary work e.g. care homes is also advisable.

Sources of help and advice for Higher Education and Apprenticeships

UNISTATS

Open days.com

Student Finance www.gov.uk/student-finance/new-fulltime-students

The Scholarship Hub  https://www.thescholarshiphub.org.uk/

The student world – fairs which have overseas universities attending

USA - Fulbright

Study in Europe

UCAS.COM

Alternatives to Higher Education

What can you do?  Support - guidance  Reminders about deadlines  Encourage open day visits to universities  CV and Employability skills guidance  Help to find work experiences/shadowing opportunities