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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Kit Daniel Searle, University Teacher in Operational Research (OR)↗️ at the School of Mathematics↗️ shares their experience embedding a low-risk consultancy project within their course curriculum highlighting the perks of student-industry collaboration.

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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The top through groups after their successful presentations with industry partner, Sopria Steri. This is a sentiment which I support because while some students will continue with an academic career, most students will go on to work in industry or become an entrepreneur. Image credit: Kit Daniel Searle.

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A real leveller: Improving a year-long, team-based project for undergraduates and professional industry mentors during lockdown

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The Design Agency is all about the reality of the world of work so we needed to echo what was happening externally within the design industry. Parallels with industry were plentiful, which allowed us to continue to promote the Design Agency scheme at Open Days as producing graduates who are 100% employable. It’s a real leveller.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This stems from my passionate belief that students can make a real and valuable contribution to the academic research and that engaging in this kind of work is empowering them to recognise their transferable skills and exciting them to continue in study, research and other academic pursuits.

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Sponsored dissertations: Connecting undergraduates with companies to research problems that matter

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Photo credit: thebostonpilot.com, CC0 In this post, Dr Sergei Plekhanov, a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Economics, highlights a sponsored dissertation scheme, which connects undergraduate economic students with organisations who need real-life problems researched… Do you remember you first big piece of individual work?

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the case of Music, though, students usually identify very strongly with their specialism and expect it to remain central to their lives. And indeed, a profession in the music industry could mean a lot of different things, with many ‘ways in’ and no obvious, prescribed graduate career path.

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Promoting equity and employability using live briefs

SRHE

by Lucy Cokes ‘Live briefs’ are used in Higher Education programmes, and I suggest that they can help promote equity and employability if they are used in very specific ways. The use of live briefs takes place not only in the creative industries, but also across more practical or core subjects in HE.