Higher Education and Employability Skills Briefing * Introduction to - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Higher Education and Employability Skills Briefing * 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

Welcome * 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

Website information

MOODLE- College intranet for students

MOODLE

Destinations

How College supports students through the Higher Education process * 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 Job searching and applications * 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

Key Events – see handout * MIDSITE SPORTS HALL – 10.15am-1.15pm * THURSDAY 14 FEBRUARY * 90+ EXHIBITORS INCLUDING: UNIVERSITIES,

Careers Fair 2019 Apprenticeships/Employment/ Year Out/Volunteering Universities Nottingham Trent Oxford Brookes Plymouth • Army/Army Reserve Anglia Ruskin Portsmouth • Ashurst LLP, London (Law) Aston Queen Mary, London Bangor Ravensbourne, University London • BDO LLP (Accounting/Finance) Bath Reading • British Telecom (BT) (IT Apprenticeships) Bath Spa Roehampton Bedfordshire Salford • Colchester Teacher Training Consortium Birmingham Sheffield • Constable VAT Consultancy LLP (Apprenticeships) Bishop Grosseteste Southampton Brighton Southampton Solent • Ensors (Accounting/Finance) Brighton & Sussex Medical School Suffolk Bristol • Environment Agency (Various apprenticeships) Surrey Brunel Sussex • Essex County Council (Apprenticeship Hub) – including Derivco Ipswich Buckinghamshire New University for the Creative Arts (UCA) Canterbury Christ Church (Apprenticeships in video gaming) University of Law Cardiff Warwick • Essex Outdoors (Employment) City University, London Westminster Coventry • Firstsite Gallery (Volunteering) Winchester Cumbria (London Campus) Worcester • Frontier (Year Out/Travel provider) Dundee York Durham • Grant Thornton UK LLP (Accounting/Finance) East Anglia • HSBC (Banking) Edge Hill Edinburgh • Investment 2020 (Investment Management) Essex (including Edge Hotel School) • Larking Gowen (Chartered Accountants) Exeter Falmouth • National Citizen Service-NCS (Volunteering) Fashion Retail Academy • Oxfam (Volunteering) Goldsmiths, London Hertfordshire • Penguin Random House (Apprenticeships) Imperial College London • Project Trust (Year Out/Travel provider) Kent King’s College, London • QA Apprenticeships (Various) Law (University of) • Scrutton Bland (Accounting/Finance) Leicester Lincoln • Shore Engineering (Engineering) Liverpool • St Helena Hospice (Volunteering) Loughborough Manchester • Tamdown Group (Civil Engineering) New College of the Humanities • Whitehall Resources (IT Recruitment) Newcastle (London campus) Northampton • Zest – St Elizabeth Hospice (Volunteering) Nottingham

Progression Event (Two Day programme) * Students return from Internal summer assessments on Monday 20 th 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 organisations, a range of Gap Year providers and studying abroad.

Sources of help and advice for Higher Education and Apprenticeships

Which?University They also have lots of guides to help and advise

UNISTATS

Open days.com

Student Finance www.gov.uk/student-finance/new-fulltime-students

The Scholarship Hub * https://www.thescholarshiphub.org.uk/

The student world – fairs which have overseas universities attending

USA - Fulbright

Study in Europe

Alternatives to Higher Education

What can you do? * Support - guidance * Reminders about deadlines * Encourage open day visits to universities * CV and Employability skills guidance * Help to find work experiences/shadowing opportunities