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  1. University of Greenwich partners with Ambitious about Autism, to create an employability programme which supports autistic students

    June 15, 2021

    University of Greenwich launched a new employability programme to enable autistic students and recent graduates to access paid internships and tailored careers support and advice. Having autism can make it harder to find full-time work after you leave university, so they are working with employers as a part of the nationwide Higher Education Network programme with Santander Universities UK and the charity Ambitious about Autism, to support their …

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  2. TUCAN Studio: Teesside University

    June 8, 2021

    The TUCAN Studio was originally set up in 2017 to support Teesside University students and graduates gain experience of working on paid real-life commercial projects, and in particular, to broaden the application of creative digital skills by enabling students and graduates to work with sectors such as health, engineering, and the police. TUCAN Studio brings multidisciplinary teams of graduates, academic staff, leading researchers and students to…

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  3. Assessment Centre Experience

    March 30, 2021

    The Assessment Centre Experience (ACE) is an ISE award winning mock assessment centre simulation, run by the University of Hertfordshire in partnership with Smart Resourcing Solutions (SRS). ACE has been recognised as one of the largest mock assessment centre simulations in the UK and will be attended by over 3000 students of the University of Hertfordshire in 2020. The scheme is designed to prepare students for the competitive reality of the gra…

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  4. Boosting graduate employability with Employer Advisory Groups

    March 30, 2021

    Every course at Anglia Ruskin University is developed in partnership with Employer Advisory Groups looking at all aspects of the curriculum to ensure employability is fully integrated into course content and design. Read what some of their employer partners say below. Wellcome Sanger Institute We have a huge skills shortage in bioinformaticians and ARU offers the expertise and the training and the student experience and can translate some of our …

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  5. Accounting for Community: Engaging Students (ACES) Scheme at Oxford Brookes

    March 30, 2021

    Oxford Brookes University’s ACES project matches second and final year accounting student volunteers with charities and social enterprises, to provide services such as book-keeping and end of year statements. Find out more below. The Accounting for Community: Engaging Students (ACES) scheme gives our students the opportunity to gain real-life experience whilst helping local community organisations. What is this scheme? It gives you real-life expe…

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  6. Graduate Diplomas in Policing

    March 30, 2021

    The University of South Wales have recently graduated the first cohort in England and Wales to complete a new graduate diploma in policing, combining combine real-life policing experiences on division with academic learning. Having experienced a combination of university lectures and academic learning with life on the beat, the officers are the first in Wales and England to complete the Degree Holder Entry Programme (DHEP) and gain a Graduate Dip…

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  7. Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering at Coventry University

    March 30, 2021

    The UK’s First ‘Faculty on the Factory Floor’ Established in 2014, the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) marks a step-change in the way the UK is tackling industry’s well-documented skills and technology gaps. Since establishment, AME has flourished to become an award-winning facility, recognised as the UK’s first ‘Faculty on the Factory Floor’ with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize. Continuing the journey to accelerate skills …

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  8. Film and TV training at Birmingham City University

    March 30, 2021

    Students at Birmingham City University get to train in motion capture technology using a MILO unit, now one of only two owned by Universities in Europe. Read about their Media Centre below. Our cutting-edge facilities, including the largest University TV studio, are housed within a purpose-built Media Centre at The Parkside Building, part of our City Centre Campus. There are four TV studios within the Media Centre, along with Studio B/Milo (the ‘…

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  10. STEAMhouse at Birmingham City University

    March 30, 2021

    STEAMhouse is Birmingham City University’s innovation centre aimed at encouraging co-working, collaboration and knowledge exchange between the arts, science, technology, engineering and maths (STEAM) sectors as a platform for supporting long-term sustainable economic growth, productivity and job creation in the West Midlands region. Created in collaboration with local arts organisation Eastside Projects, and supported by the ERDF and Arts Council…

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