HEA Wales e-bulletin

The latest HEA Wales e-bulletin is available.  For an update on News, such as the HEA International Scholarship Programme, Publications, Resources and Funding  and Events such as 'New to Teaching Workshop: Business & Management, Finance & Accounting, Hospitality & Tourism, Marketing' and 'Recognising holistic learning: developing the co-curriculum',  please  click here

HEA: Thematic workshop and seminar series 2012-13

The HEA is running a workshop and seminar series in the thematic areas of employability, flexible learning and internationalisation. Each seminar will be hosted and delivered by an HE institution and will focus on aspects of learning and teaching.

Details of the 2012-13 series are now available here.

Below are the current Employability Seminars being hosted:

Employability seminars

• Teaching with team projects: Best practice for developing employability skills
  24 October 2012, University of Salford
• Developing internships and work based learning opportunities for mature students: creating opportunities and raising aspirations
  31 October 2012, The Open University
• The impact of regionalisation and ‘employment during study’ on graduate aspirations and employability
  6 November 2012, Teesside University
• Addressing the gulf between academic, student and employer perspectives on employability
  3 December 2012, University of Leeds
• ‘I can’t believe how far I’ve come - I think I’ve finally found my career choice’: what makes a good placement?
  12 December 2012, Nottingham Trent University

The second call for proposals for this series will open on 1 October and close 29 October. Details will be available shortly, http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/seminar-series.

CDEL Launches IT Induction website for all new and returning students.

As part of the University's ongoing commitment to improving the student experience, CDEL has developed a new IT Induction website for all new and returning students at the University of Wales, Newport.

The site contains everything students need in order to get started in using the university's web based portal, which itself has been revamped this year in a join project between the IT department, it's web development team and CDEL.

The site has also been optimised for viewing on a mobile phone and will change it's appearance dynamically to provide the best possible user experience depending on how students choose to access it.  For students choosing to access it on their smartphones it will transform from a website into a mobile web app, allowing them to access all of the IT induction resources no matter where they are.

A QR code directing students to make use of the site has been incorporated into their paper based induction packs and during the university's enrolment period CDEL will be running drop in workshops for any students who require face to face help and support.

To view the site for yourself, please click on the link below:

Click here to view the IT Induction Website

HEA Wales Bulletin

The latest HEA Wales e-bulletin is available.  For an update on News, Publications, Resources and Funding  and Events such as 'Student Engagement with International Curriculum Development' and

'Recognising holistic learning: developing the co-curriculum',  please  click here

CELT: Teaching Innovation Grants and Learning Innovation Grants

As previously announced there were  8 successful funded projects from the CELT Innovation Grant call of May 2012.

These projects were:

Teaching Innovation Grants

Deb Baff - Enhancing the Student Experience through improved communication :Provision of Electronic Enrolment and Induction Information

Mark Richardson - Re-evaluating  Summer  School  Activity  as  a  Widening Access  Opportunity  to  Higher  Education—Family Centred Provision

Elizabeth Jones - Creating a professional online identity: educating staff & students to create and maintain their own ePortfolios

Charles Penwarden - Student Profiling and Early Intervention System

Dr Michal Tombs - Development and Dissemination of a University Wide On-line Resource of Psychological Tests & Measures for Research and Teaching

Learning Innovation Grants

Andrew Hilling  -  How can photographic media be used to bring a sense of visual realism and detail to Careers case study information of Newport Photography graduates in the years following graduation?

Carys Heath - Collaboration Module Project 1

Olu Adetiba - Collaboration Module Project 2

For more information about these and previous CELT Learning and Teaching Projects visit the CELT Moodle Enterprise pages: https://my.newport.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=2329

CELT: Staff & student learning and teaching collaborations enhance employability skills

CELT’s first round of Innovation Grants have resulted in 8 successful funded projects, supporting teaching developments of 5 staff and work-experience for 10 students over the next year.  CELT Teaching Innovation Grants provide funding to support staff-led projects, which also employ at least one student providing short-term work-experience as part of the overall project developments.  CELT Learning Innovation Grants are student-led projects, which are each mentored by a staff member with the Grant providing funding to support the students work-experience.  Collectively, these Grants encourage staff and students to work together on learning and teaching developments to enhance the student learning experience.  These Grants provide invaluable opportunities to further develop students employability skills and enrich their graduate attributes.

Verity Worthington, the new Education and Welfare Officer, in Newport Students Union commented

 "In my campaign to become Education and Welfare Officer, my overall aim was to ensure students are able to take part in each aspect of their student experience. CELT innovation Grants fit in particularly well to my plans as students are actively encouraged to contribute to their education whilst also gaining useful work experience and getting paid."

Details of CELT Innovation Grants are available at http://bit.ly/CELTgrants

Student work-experience opportunities at the University are supported by the Careers and Employability Service: http://bit.ly/NewportCareers

The next call for CELT Innovation Grants is now open.  All applications from staff and students, whether experienced project developers or new adventurers, are welcome.   Further details are available from CELT Enterprise at http://bit.ly/CELTenterprise or by email to celt@newport.ac.uk.

eBooks Event

Library Services is hosting an eBooks day for libraries across the South East region.  We are working in conjunction with our partners from the public sector, further and higher education and also specialist health and government services too. This is a great opportunity to forge strong alliances with regional stakeholders and for Newport to brand an exciting and innovative training product, along with developing a community of practice for eBooks across Wales.