SLIDE 1 * Introduction to Higher Education - Ashleigh Poole, University of Essex * An insight into alternative routes into careers such as traineeships and apprenticeships and Employability Skills – Anne Johnson, Assistant Principal * What does College offer students – Careers programme/Key Dates Evette Hawkins, Careers Leader
Higher Education and Employability Skills Briefing
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* 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
Welcome
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Website information
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MOODLE- College intranet for students
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MOODLE
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Destinations
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* 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 * Careers interviews * Information on MOODLE and in Bulletins
How College supports students through the Higher Education process
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* Careers Fair (January 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
How College supports students through Job searching and applications
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* MIDSITE SPORTS HALL – 10.15am-1.15pm * THURSDAY 14 FEBRUARY * 90+ EXHIBITORS INCLUDING: UNIVERSITIES,
Key Events – see handout
SLIDE 10 Universities
Anglia Ruskin Aston Bangor Bath Bath Spa Bedfordshire Birmingham Bishop Grosseteste Brighton Brighton & Sussex Medical School Bristol Brunel Buckinghamshire New Canterbury Christ Church Cardiff City University, London Coventry Cumbria (London Campus) Dundee Durham East Anglia Edge Hill Edinburgh Essex (including Edge Hotel School) Exeter Falmouth Fashion Retail Academy Goldsmiths, London Hertfordshire Imperial College London Kent King’s College, London Law (University of) Leicester Lincoln Liverpool Loughborough Manchester New College of the Humanities Newcastle (London campus) Northampton Nottingham Nottingham Trent Oxford Brookes Plymouth Portsmouth Queen Mary, London Ravensbourne, University London Reading Roehampton Salford Sheffield Southampton Southampton Solent Suffolk Surrey Sussex University for the Creative Arts (UCA) University of Law Warwick Westminster Winchester Worcester York
Careers Fair 2019
Apprenticeships/Employment/ Year Out/Volunteering
- Army/Army Reserve
- Ashurst LLP, London (Law)
- BDO LLP (Accounting/Finance)
- British Telecom (BT) (IT Apprenticeships)
- Colchester Teacher Training Consortium
- Constable VAT Consultancy LLP (Apprenticeships)
- Ensors (Accounting/Finance)
- Environment Agency (Various apprenticeships)
- Essex County Council (Apprenticeship Hub) – including Derivco Ipswich
(Apprenticeships in video gaming)
- Essex Outdoors (Employment)
- Firstsite Gallery (Volunteering)
- Frontier (Year Out/Travel provider)
- Grant Thornton UK LLP (Accounting/Finance)
- HSBC (Banking)
- Investment 2020 (Investment Management)
- Larking Gowen (Chartered Accountants)
- National Citizen Service-NCS (Volunteering)
- Oxfam (Volunteering)
- Penguin Random House (Apprenticeships)
- Project Trust (Year Out/Travel provider)
- QA Apprenticeships (Various)
- Scrutton Bland (Accounting/Finance)
- Shore Engineering (Engineering)
- St Helena Hospice (Volunteering)
- Tamdown Group (Civil Engineering)
- Whitehall Resources (IT Recruitment)
- Zest – St Elizabeth Hospice (Volunteering)
SLIDE 11 * Students return from Internal summer assessments on Monday 20th 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
- rganisations, a range of Gap Year providers and studying
abroad.
Progression Event
(Two Day programme)
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Sources of help and advice for Higher Education and Apprenticeships
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They also have lots of guides to help and advise
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UNISTATS
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Open days.com
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Student Finance
www.gov.uk/student-finance/new-fulltime-students
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* https://www.thescholarshiphub.org.uk/
The Scholarship Hub
SLIDE 18 The student world – fairs which have
- verseas universities attending
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USA - Fulbright
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Study in Europe
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Alternatives to Higher Education
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*Support - guidance *Reminders about deadlines *Encourage open day visits to universities *CV and Employability skills guidance *Help to find work experiences/shadowing opportunities
What can you do?
