Putting Careers into the Academic Curriculum - UK One Day Conference
Contents
- Description:
- The Dearing report and the recent QAA Code of Practice have both highlighted the importance of student careers guidance and embedding careers advice within undergraduate programmes of study. This event in March will highlight practical ways in which we can integrate career and graduateness skills within the academic curriculum for students of geography, earth and environmental sciences (GEES). The day will place emphasis on good practice examples of career activities, and give an opportunity to discuss embedding issues.
- When and Where?
- 12th March, 2001 - Geological Society, London
- Who Should Attend?
- Anyone with an interest in enhancing their students' learning experience in Geography, Earth or Environmental Sciences. This event is free of charge (including coffee and lunch), however, participants will be required to meet their own travel and subsistence expenses.
Programme
10:30 Welcome
Brian Chalkley, LTSN Subject Centre for Geography, Earth & Environmental
Sciences, University of Plymouth.
10:35 What Career Skills do our Graduates take to the marketplace?
Sue Hawksworth, Careers Advisor, University of Leeds.
11:00 Why include Careers? The data.
Pauline Kneale, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
11.40 What do employers want?
Prof Jane Plant and Dr Ian E Penn, British Geological Survey. London
12.00 A graduates' perspective
Martin Bradbury - EuroDirect, Leeds.
12.25 Plenary
12.40 Lunch
1.30 -1.45 Experience Works Programme: making links with sme's.
Denise Richards, Careers Advier, University of Southampton.
1.45 -2.00 Using employer links to enhance careers development in Environmental
Science programmes.
Sarah Maguire and Claire Guyer, Teaching and Learning Development Unit, School
of Environmental Studies, University of Ulster, Coleraine.
2.00 - 2.15 Putting Careers into a single honours Geography scheme: some
early plans.
Chris Ribchester, Geography and Dr Judith Dome, Head of Careers Service, Chester
College of Higher Education.
2.15 -2.30 The Personal Development Portfolio for Geographers - a tool to
raise employability awareness.
Andrea Duncan and Dawn Weatherston, Educational & Careers Guidance Officers,
University College Northampton.
2.30-2.45 Embedding and Assessing Career Management Skills in Earth Science
degree course through (subject-specific) group and individual assignments.
Neil Thomas, School of Earth Sciences & Geography, Kingston University
2.45-3.00 A careers module for final year geographers: the Plymouth experience.
Brian Chalkley, Department of Geography and Mandy Burns, Careers Adviser,
University of Plymouth
3.00- 3.15 Geographers and the Workplace: an embedded module.
Pauline Kneale, School of Geography and Sue Hawksworth, Careers Centre University
of Leeds.
3.15 It is not what you study, it is how you benefit from your studies that
interests us.
Dr Andrew Bottomley, PricewaterhouseCoopers, London
3.40 Create your dream module, embedding? Discussion
(Chair: Pauline Kneale)
4.10 Tea and departure
Posters
Your Future: a Guide to Career Development (the module at Luton) Arti Kumar, Senior Careers Adviser, University of Luton.
Career Planning Agreement - Stand-alone Module or an Integrated Approach? Alice Goddard, University of Brighton.
Developing and Embedding Reflective Portfolios in the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Pauline Kneale, University of Leeds.
Stressful Experiences are Useful Experiences: creating skill-based materials. Pauline Kneale, University of Leeds.