2. • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs - 14 Jan 2013

3. • "The pressure is on students to get work
experience and choose their career
path early on. Students should go to
university with a plan in their first six
months, not leave it until the last six
weeks, or they risk missing out on a
decent job."
- Martin Birchall, managing director of
High Fliers Research

4.  a set of achievements, - skills,
understandings and personal attributes –
that make graduates more likely to gain
employment and be successful in their
chosen occupations, which benefits
themselves, the workforce, the
community and the economy (HEA,
2012).

5. • The skills come under the following
categories:
• behavioural – enthusiasm, adaptability,
resilience, thoroughness
• functional – literacy, language, numeracy,
able to use ICT
• intellectual – planning, problem-solving, self
management, organising own learning
• work-related – team-working, time
management, customer service,
consistency, reliability

6.  Business and customer awareness –
business success, innovation and taking
calculated risks, customer satisfaction
and customer loyalty.
 Problem solving – analysing facts,
creative thinking to develop solutions.
 Communication and literacy – ability to
produce clear, structured written work
and listening and questioning.

7.  Application of numeracy – general
mathematical awareness and its
application in practical contexts
 Application of information technology –
basic IT skills, word processing,
spreadsheets, file management and use
of internet search engines.
 A positive attitude: a ‘can-do’
approach, new ideas and a drive to
make these happen.

8.  Entrepreneurship/enterprise: broadly, an
ability to demonstrate an innovative
approach, creativity, collaboration and
risk taking. (CBI 2011)

10.  Google scanned and digitized 7 million
books and Wikipedia users created the
world's largest encyclopedia
 YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video
and audio lectures by the best professors
in the country available for free, and
before college students built Facebook
into the world's largest social network

12.  Slideshow of images of Probation
 Video interview with an Offender Manager in
Blackburn
 Video interview with the Board of the
Lancashire Probation Trust
 Video interview with Kevin Robinson, Chief
Executive, Lancashire Probation Trust
 “Mr Consequence” – interview with reformed
“hard guy”
 Communities designing crime prevention
services

13.  Video of housing and it's impact on children's
health and well being
 Investigation on “what does diversity mean?”
 Investigation into services promoting diversity
 Kiosk application designed to reach communities
with South Asian communities
 Diverse students creating value for their
communities
 Diverse communities – Darwen Valley Community
Centre Management Board
 What is Social Capital? – Darwen Arts Society

14.  Traditional assignment – Produce an
assessment report on child poverty in
Lancashire
 FdA Public Service Management - Social
Policy & Welfare to explore….
› Causes of child poverty
› Implications for children
› Make social policy recommendations

16.  Lancashire Probation Trust suffers from poor
reputation and lack of understanding from
the public about what they do
 People who were aware of offenders doing
Community Payback work in the local area
had lower levels of confidence in the
effectiveness of the CJS than those who
weren’t (36% and 43% respectively) (Home
Office, November 2011)

17.  Students provided the Board of
Lancashire Probation Trust the
opportunity to dispel the myths around
“Community Payback” and community
justice approaches generally

18.  Beetham (2010) suggests that “the vast
majority of graduate jobs require use of
ICT….. an ever-more significant element
of employability.”
 4 C’s - Collaboration, Critical Thinking,
Communication, Creativity

23.  What are your views on “Students as
producers of knowledge”?
 How would you like to get more
involved?
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