The Student Engagement Team has transformed approaches to employability and student engagement with its commitment to developing an ambitious framework of co-curricular engagement that facilitates students working as collaborators and partners. The team now delivers an innovative Intern Scheme built on three cornerstones (business mentor, ‘soft-skill’ professional training, and work experience).  

“I was supported by the team who continuously encouraged me with their endless go-getting attitude to pursue what I didn't believe I was capable of” (Gemma, student)

The Studio Learning Project (SLP) is highly innovative curriculum project aimed at designing unique, industry-immersive undergraduate programmes in the creative industries. As with all Pearson College London degrees, students, industry and academics work in partnership to co-create the curriculum. Four different ‘Studio Projects’ were created to try out different approaches to structure and delivery of the knowledge and skills required in the creative industries, with a particular focus of the ‘employability/professional’ skillset often deemed to be lacking in graduates.

The interdisciplinary team that has created and delivers science communication opportunities and pedagogy within undergraduate science curricula at the University of East Anglia (UEA) has developed a Level 6 module in Science Communication and published their findings on the assessment of student skill development. 

The UoG Media Festival week is a major cultural and educational event which hosts internationally-renowned industry practitioners at our media centre in Cheltenham. Guests come from all sectors of UK/international media, from companies such as BBC, Aardman, Sky, Universal, Dreamworks and Spotify.

Sessions range from practical demonstrations to keynotes and panels to networking and alumni events, many of which may be viewed at uogmediafest.com, as all sessions are recorded and live-streamed by our media students. After each appearance guests are interviewed by our journalism students.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science at the University of Leicester comprises a strongly collaborative teaching team delivering the University’s innovative Natural Sciences undergraduate programme. Over 12 years the team has developed a unique programme of interdisciplinary modules taught by problem-based learning (PBL) that integrates employability skills through authentic assessments.

Pietro Spanu is a keen and innovative teacher and Professor of Molecular Plant Pathology at Imperial, Moira Sarsfield is Senior Faculty Learning Technologist and Kate Ippolito is Senior Teaching Fellow in Educational Development. Together they work to translate educational strategy and theory into practical applications.   

A team of 16 academics teaching on the BSc Biomedical Sciences programmes came together to eliminate the compartmentalised approach to learning experienced by students on modular programmes and to reduce the assessment load for staff and students.

The relationship between Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry and our community partners is truly symbiotic. We help to address oral health inequalities in areas of need, while our partners provide unique learning environments which take our students out of traditional learning environments and into unfamiliar situations.

Chinese Whispers is a collaborative project involving academics from two disciplines (Music and Languages), diverse cultural backgrounds and international institutions (Tianjin Normal University and the Confucius Institute), various professions (e.g. a Beijing Choir Master, composers and music conductors, teacher trainers, technicians) and different stages of the educational journey (students, trainee and qualified teachers, lecturers and professors).

The Central Teaching laboratory (CTL) is the UK’s first shared teaching laboratory for physical, environmental and archaeological sciences and is internationally acknowledged for innovation in undergraduate science education. Key to its success is the recognition that successful teaching and operations in a shared facility requires multi-disciplinary academic support.