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'How to' week
Student Employability Manager Pam Pickles
Lancaster University How To…week is a week of events with students and businesses to enhancing student experience and employability. The week-long programme is jam-packed with workshops, interactive competitions, prizes and practical, bite-sized information, know-how and inspiration and includes two workshops run by Science and Technology's Student Employability Manager Pam Pickles and UNITE with Business:
1. How to…..make the most out of a student placement
Wednesday 14th November 1.00 -1.45pm, Bowland North, Seminar Room 6
This workshop provides an opportunity to find out how a work placement can improve students' skills, knowledge, employability and most importantly how to ensure that they gain maximum benefit from the placement through careful preparation.
2. How to……access a paid placement
Thursday 15th November 1.00 - 1,45pm, Bowland North, Seminar Room 6
An opportunity to find out where students can look for paid work experience placements and how to make successful applications. Find out about websites advertising paid placements and learn about making speculative applications.
Graduates who have benefited from work placements and employers including LEC resident company The REACH Centre will also be available to answer questions and share their thoughts.
Pam explains "Despite having considerable knowledge, skills and abilities, many of our students simply have no experience of the workplace. Gaining work experience whilst at university can help to ensure that they are fully equipped for the future, making them more likely to achieve their full potential."
Pam is happy to discuss the ways in which such experience can be gained with staff and students. She is also keen to support students in securing work experience and can be contacted by email or on phone number 01524-510193.
Security Lancaster are also getting involved in "How To.." Week and have formed a partnership with parental control software company Cyber Sentinel to deliver the Cyber Security: Innovation Creativity and Entrepreneurship Challenge. This challenge will provide students on the MSc in Cyber Security and other Masters programmes at Lancaster University with the opportunity to develop commercial ideas from their studies with support from Lancaster University and business mentoring from Phillip Speed, Director of Cyber Sentinel.
Thu 08 November 2012
Latest News
Geography student sets up film company
It is well known that Geography graduates are highly employable and use their degrees in many different ways. One of the more unusual we have heard about recently is Lancaster geographer Greg Tomaszewicz who has set up his own Video Production Company - Lanor Productions.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Fri 22 February 2013
Eco-innovation businesses invited to attend pioneering project launch
Ambitious North West SMEs keen to drive forward eco-innovative ideas and products are invited to a major event in Manchester on March 4.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Thu 21 February 2013
First Science and Technology Business Partnerships and Enterprise Annual Report 2011-2012 available to download now
2011-2012 saw the development of a new theme-based strategy for Business Partnerships and Enterprise in Science and Technology. The seven interdisciplinary themes are: Advanced Manufacturing, Energy, Environment, Health and Human Development, Information and Communication Technologies, Quantum Technology and Security. Each theme has dedicated professional staff to work with businesses and source the expertise they need.
Tue 19 February 2013
Lancaster University Coffeemat Challenge won by Science and Technology student Seb
The concept of a new university website, complete with mobile application, to capture the campus social scene at a glance, earned an enterprising student an iPad.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Tue 19 February 2013