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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
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
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
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
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
MIDSITE SPORTS HALL – 10.15am- 1.15pm THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 100+ EXHIBITORS INCLUDING: 70 UNIVERSITIES
Apprenticeships/Employment/Year Out Army/Army Reserve Army Air Corps Reserve (677 Squadron) BDO LLP (Accounting/Finance) British Telecom (BT) (IT Apprenticeships) Colchester Hospital Colchester Institute (Apprenticeships) Colchester Teacher Training Consortium Constable VAT Consultancy LLP (Apprenticeships) Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) Edmund Carr LLP (Accounting/Finance) Ellisons Solicitors Ensors (Accounting/Finance) Essex Boys and Girls Clubs (Volunteering) Essex Police Frontier (Year Out/Travel provider) Grant Thornton (Accounting & Finance) HSBC (Banking) Investment 20/20 (Investment Management) Larking Gowen (Chartered Accountants) London Market Group (Insurance) Make Happen (Progression-relevant students aware) Project Trust (Year Out/Travel provider) Projects Abroad (Year Out) Royal Navy/Royal Marines/RoyalFleet Auxiliary Scrutton Bland (Accounting/Finance) Shore Engineering The Prince’s Trust (Self-employment) Whybrow Chartered Surveyors Zest - St Elizabeth Hospice (Volunteering)
Aberdeen Anglia Ruskin Aston Bangor Bath Bedfordshire Birmingham Bishop Grosseteste, Lincoln Brighton Brighton & Sussex Medical School Bristol Brunel Buckinghamshire New Canterbury Christ Church Cardiff Chichester City University, London Coventry Dundee Durham East Anglia Edge Hill Edinburgh Essex-(including Edge Hotel School) Exeter Falmouth Fashion Retail Academy Greenwich Hertfordshire Imperial College London Keele Kent King’s College, London Lancaster Law (University of) Leeds Leicester Lincoln Liverpool London Institute of Banking & Finance London School of Economics London South Bank Loughborough Manchester Newcastle & Newcastle (London campus) Northampton Northumbria Nottingham Nottingham Trent Oxford Brookes Pearson College London Plymouth Portsmouth Queen Mary, London Ravensbourne, University London Reading Roehampton Royal Holloway, London Salford Sheffield Southampton St Mary’s, Twickenham, London Staffordshire Strathclyde Suffolk Surrey Sussex University Centre Colchester (Colchester Institute) University College London University for the Creative Arts (UCA) Warwick Westminster Winchester Worcester Writtle York
‘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
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 – 12th Feb Oxbridge briefing for First Years, 17th March – Cambridge trip to Emmanuel College for First Years, 24th 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)’
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.