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Date: 21 June 2012
Venue: 2Q49, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY
Time: 14.00-17.00
HE-STEM funded Employer focused projects to support lifelong learning
We would like to invite you to this event, providing three workshops looking at university and employer engagement. We aim to provide ideas and opportunities to improve the links between Advanced Engineering organisations and Higher Education providers, to better enable learners to develop their professional competencies.
Employer and University Engagement - building long term relationships to enhance the learning process
- Working together to deliver skills and knowledge, and the ability to implement them to the workforce
- Enabling professional development in a flexible and safe learning environment
Opportunities for employer engagement
- Professional Advisory Boards
- Evidenced Work-based Learning
- Perceived problems and how to avoid them
Student Led Engineering Employability Audit
- Background to the national project and the experience of PTA [Practice Transfer Adoption]
- Adaptation of University of Exeter's existing good practice - How we did things differently
- Project's aims and activities
- Project outcomes, recommendations and dissemination activities
- Experience of managing a student led project
Blended Learning Environment to support Curricula and Professional Development and Recognition
- Credit awarded from foundation to postgraduate degrees
- Learning opportunities for the workforce - Higher Engineering Apprenticeships
- Relationship between academic awards and professional recognition
To attend, please RSVP using the onilne booking form.
Cost: Free
Contact: Mrs Wendy Fowles-Sweet
Telephone: +44(0)117 328 3030
E-mail: cpda@uwe.ac.uk
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