Students4webES project is featured in today's Oxford Mail newspaper on page 12!
Link to article on the Oxford Mail website
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Featured in the Oxford Mail newspaper
Link to article on the Oxford Mail website
Two more webinars booked in!
We are very pleased to announce that we have two more employer webinars booked in for February 2013. Both webinars will take the same format as our first one and will be based around the theme of employability skills.
The first will be with Waitrose Abingdon, on the 11th February. In the second one, Dave Rolls, manager of The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre, will be talking to students on February 18th.
As we book more employers in we will post details here on the blog, so watch this space!
Update: Please click on the following links to watch these webinars
Waitrose webinar
Active Nation webinar (The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre)
The first will be with Waitrose Abingdon, on the 11th February. In the second one, Dave Rolls, manager of The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre, will be talking to students on February 18th.
As we book more employers in we will post details here on the blog, so watch this space!
Update: Please click on the following links to watch these webinars
Waitrose webinar
Active Nation webinar (The White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre)
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Oxford Mail photo shoot
Earlier today the Oxford Mail visited the Abingdon campus of Abingdon & Witney College to take some photos after a Press Release was sent out about our JISC Advance funded Students4webES project.
Project leader, Ellen Lessner, was on hand to capture a photo of core members of the student group with Kelly Boast, Head of Staff Services, who starred in our first webinar.
Project leader, Ellen Lessner, was on hand to capture a photo of core members of the student group with Kelly Boast, Head of Staff Services, who starred in our first webinar.
Monday, 28 January 2013
Student posts - Why I joined the Students4webES Project
The reason why I got involved in the project Students4webES was because I wanted to find out more information about webinars. I found that using a webinar is cheaper and in some ways better to do meetings instead of travelling. I want to go into business in the future and this is very important for me, as it plays a critical role. The webinar project is really fun and once you get hold of the software that you will be using it becomes easy as well.
Post by Mamps Makuku
(Students4webES student)
I joined the project because I was intrigued with what a webinar was and how it could play apart in the world of work. Since I joined I have found out that as technology advances it is a lot cheaper to run webinars than it is to send people across the world for business meetings. Also it has helped me on a personal level because I now know how to make my CV and application forms stand out to an employer and how it can help me gain employability skills. These skills are now helping me in my application for apprenticeships. I would recommend the project to other students.
Post by Aaron Scott
(Students4webES student)
Post by Mamps Makuku
(Students4webES student)
I joined the project because I was intrigued with what a webinar was and how it could play apart in the world of work. Since I joined I have found out that as technology advances it is a lot cheaper to run webinars than it is to send people across the world for business meetings. Also it has helped me on a personal level because I now know how to make my CV and application forms stand out to an employer and how it can help me gain employability skills. These skills are now helping me in my application for apprenticeships. I would recommend the project to other students.
Post by Aaron Scott
(Students4webES student)
Background Information - The Professional Futures Programme
About the Professional Futures Programme at Abingdon and Witney College
The Professional Futures
Programme is a unique and innovative ‘Vocational Baccalaureate’ spanning all
levels of the full-time curriculum at Abingdon and Witney College.
The programme
is designed to foster entrepreneurialism, enterprise and work-ready skills,
knowledge and understanding in learners through ‘live’ assignments and
cross-curricular collaboration which reflects real-world, employer-driven
demands.
‘Futures’
graduates will have more highly developed team working skills, be better
prepared for their chosen careers and more employable than those students who
have just completed an off-the-shelf vocational qualification.
The
‘added value’ of the futures programme will create ‘graduate attributes’ that
are in line with key Government agendas to widen access to HE and to support
economic growth through skills and training across industry sectors.
Fiona
Morey, Assistant Principal (Curriculum) says: "We know that in these
competitive times young people need to stand out from the rest when applying
for jobs or university, and our innovative Professional Futures Programme is
designed to ensure that they do just that."
The
Programme has been very successfully piloted on our Abingdon Campus this year,
and is being rolled out to all students based on the Witney Campus for the
2012/13 academic year.
As
part of the Programme students will have the opportunity to gain hands-on work
experience, learn to run their own business, get involved in community
initiatives and build impressive curriculum vitae.
Skills
Minister, John Hayes says: "By equipping young people with practical
skills and workplace knowledge, Abingdon & Witney College are helping them
on the path to rewarding careers in their chosen field."
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