06/07 e3i Projects
Please see below for projects funded and supported by the e3i CETL in the academic year 2006/2007.
Project: Rotherham Ready
Lead: Sheila Quairney
Brief Description: Rotherham Ready is a large scale, high profile Yorkshire Forward funded project that is running until 2009 across the Rotherham borough. It is being run in conjunction with local employers and all local schools and colleges are taking part.
It aims to create a culture of enterprise within the education framework.
Project: Placement Induction Block Week
Lead: Ian Jones
Brief Description: This CETL project aims to simulate a number of work place activities in a time constrained exercise designed to alert students to many of the demands and expectations of placement student employers
Project: Employability and Non-Traditional, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Learners
Lead: Rebecca Strachan
Brief Description: This CETL project aims to recommend ways to support CPD learners through their personal "journey". This needs to be done by embedding support for employability and PDP (Personal Development Portfolio) into the whole course. At
present these things exist but they need “joining up”. Learners’ perceptions will also be investigated before further
development takes place.
Project: Work Placement Opportunities
Lead: Katherine Gardiner
Brief Description: Firstly to work out what kind of placement/ attachment would best fit within the confines of a twelve month programme; and secondly to get this system in place at the same time as the course is re-validated in April 2007.
Project: PE, Sport Development & Coaching Student Conference 2007
Lead: Sarah Wenham
Brief Description: The aim of the conference was to develop an innovative learning & teaching environment with the support of industry specialists who facilitated over 50 workshops around the themes of PE, sport development, coaching & health- related physical activity.
Project: First Annual Physiotherapy Graduate/Student Conference 2007
Lead: Pauline Buttling
Brief Description: The aim of the conference was to offer graduates the chance to showcase their work and to allow them to demonstrate presentation skills, organisational skills and management skills on their CV. Also, the conference provided an opportunity for current students and staff, both internal and external, to learn about the work done by these graduates in their final year