Higher Education and Employability Skills Briefing · Introduction to Higher Education - Rachel...

Introduction to Higher Education - Rachel Wier, University of Essex

An insight into alternative routes into careers such as traineeships, apprenticeships and Employability Skills – Hayley Hallworth, Careers Team

What does College offer students – Careers programme/Key Dates Evette Hawkins, Careers Leader

Higher Education and Employability Skills Briefing

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

Welcome

Website information

MOODLE-College intranet for students

MOODLE

Destinations

Employability Skills Tutorial – for Personal Statement

Manage your Career - Tutorial

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 (late summer term)

Careers interviews

Information on MOODLE and in Bulletins

How College supports students through the Higher Education process

Employability Tutorial

Managing your Career Tutorial

Careers Fair (February 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

How College supports students through Job searching and

applications

MIDSITE SPORTS HALL – 10.15am-1.15pm

THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY

100+ EXHIBITORS INCLUDING: 70 UNIVERSITIES

Key Events – see handout

Careers Fair 2020

Apprenticeships/Employment/Year Out

Army/Army Reserve

Army Air Corps Reserve (677 Squadron)

BDO LLP (Accounting/Finance)

British Telecom (BT) (IT Apprenticeships)

Colchester Hospital

Colchester Institute (Apprenticeships)

Colchester Teacher Training Consortium

Constable VAT Consultancy LLP (Apprenticeships)

Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)

Edmund Carr LLP (Accounting/Finance)

Ellisons Solicitors

Ensors (Accounting/Finance)

Essex Boys and Girls Clubs (Volunteering)

Essex Police

Frontier (Year Out/Travel provider)

Grant Thornton (Accounting & Finance)

HSBC (Banking)

Investment 20/20 (Investment

Management)

Larking Gowen (Chartered Accountants)

London Market Group (Insurance)

Make Happen (Progression-relevant

students aware)

Project Trust (Year Out/Travel provider)

Projects Abroad (Year Out)

Royal Navy/Royal Marines/RoyalFleet

Auxiliary

Scrutton Bland (Accounting/Finance)

Shore Engineering

The Prince’s Trust (Self-employment)

Whybrow Chartered Surveyors

Zest - St Elizabeth Hospice (Volunteering)

Careers fair 2020 - Universities

Aberdeen

Anglia Ruskin

Aston

Bangor

Bath

Bedfordshire

Birmingham

Bishop Grosseteste, Lincoln

Brighton

Brighton & Sussex Medical School

Bristol

Brunel

Buckinghamshire New

Canterbury Christ Church

Cardiff

Chichester

City University, London

Coventry

Dundee

Durham

East Anglia

Edge Hill

EdinburghEssex-(including Edge Hotel School)ExeterFalmouthFashion Retail AcademyGreenwichHertfordshireImperial College LondonKeeleKentKing’s College, LondonLancasterLaw (University of)LeedsLeicesterLincolnLiverpoolLondon Institute of Banking & FinanceLondon School of EconomicsLondon South BankLoughboroughManchesterNewcastle & Newcastle (London campus)NorthamptonNorthumbriaNottingham

Nottingham TrentOxford BrookesPearson College LondonPlymouthPortsmouthQueen Mary, LondonRavensbourne, University LondonReadingRoehamptonRoyal Holloway, LondonSalfordSheffieldSouthamptonSt Mary’s, Twickenham, LondonStaffordshireStrathclydeSuffolkSurreySussexUniversity Centre Colchester (Colchester Institute)University College LondonUniversity for the Creative Arts (UCA)WarwickWestminsterWinchesterWorcesterWrittleYork

Students return from Internal summer assessments on Monday 18th 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.

Students devise their own programme to follow and choose 13 talks

Progression Event (Two Day programme)

Career progressionKey Events - Handout

Tutorials after they return from Study leave are about Progression – Employment and Higher Education.

Students are encouraged to do research and complete their CV and UCAS application

UCAS application – earliest you can apply is mid September – latest (not to be a ‘Late Applicant’) Mid November at College (to allow checking and sending before 15th January deadline)

Tutorials

‘Oxbridge – the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Oxford and Cambridge are two of the best academic universities

in the world, as they offer unrivalled teaching and learning opportunities

Applicants need to have an excellent academic record (GCSE and A Level results), be passionate about their subject, and be self-starters in terms of learning

College offers support and guidance for students who are thinking of applying – 12th Feb Oxbridge briefing for First Years, 17th March – Cambridge trip to Emmanuel College for First Years, 24th March – Former Student briefing for First Years, May-June –1 to 1 interviews with First Years, Parent Evening in July

For further information, go to the Careers Moodle site, then find ‘Oxbridge’; or email Adam Bantick (Arts subjects) or Miriam Raynor (Science and Maths subjects)’

OXBRIDGE Group

It is an additional study that is timetabled for Friday lunchtime. If planning to study one of these courses students should already be enrolled on Medics and need to see Kate Thacker in Biology to join.

The competitive nature of these courses and high Academic entry criteria. If students are not looking at 3 A predictions at A-level then they are not going to get onto a course unless they fulfil Widening Participation Criteria and even then they really need to be Bs. For most students their GCSEs will also be crucial a) because there is a minimum entry criteria and b) for there is a string correlation in GCSE score and success in the Admissions tests that both Doctors and Dentists have to sit.

For Vets work experience is compulsory and they have to have completed a minimum number of weeks. For the others work experience is advisable and a significant number have organised this at Colchester hospital. Long term voluntary work e.g. care homes is also advisable.

MEDICS- Medicine, Dentistry, Vet Med or Physio

Sources of help and advice for Higher Education and Apprenticeships

UNISTATS

Open days.com

Student Financewww.gov.uk/student-finance/new-fulltime-students

https://www.thescholarshiphub.org.uk/

The Scholarship Hub

The student world – fairs which have overseas universities attending

USA - Fulbright

Study in Europe

UCAS.COM

Alternatives to Higher Education

Support - guidanceReminders about deadlines Encourage open day visits to

universitiesCV and Employability skills guidanceHelp to find work

experiences/shadowing opportunities

What can you do?