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Summer Fair Success! NEWS Over 1000 people attended the ‘Find a job’ summer fair in May organised by the UWE Careers Recruiter Partnership team in conjunction with the Students Union. The event was aimed at helping new graduates kick start their job hunting, and present a positive message about the buoyancy of the graduate job market to counteract many of the messages in the press. The event also provided an opportunity for other students to look for summer work or placement opportunities. The Recruiter Partnership team decided to invite recruitment consultancies instead of individual employers in order to focus the event on finding students and graduates vacancies in their area of interest. The recruitment agencies that attended had vacancies in a wide range of employment sectors including law, admin, sales, IT and finance, to engineering, technical professionals and teaching. The feedback from both the recruiters and students was positive. Caring for METIman Christ College students experienced hands on nursing with a difference when they attended the Nursing Skills Simulation Suite at UWE’s Glenside campus. The students, who are all taking their BTec in Health and Social care, had the chance to try out a number of skills at the high tech facility including handwashing, METIman patient simulator pulse and blood pressure readings. The suite also features realistic baby manikins, which the students became quickly attached to as they practised caring for them. The facility is an invaluable one for people training in a variety of health care roles from nursing to paramedics, because it replicates the real hospital environment and creates a sense of familiarity when they encounter the real thing. Aim Higher Co-ordinator at Christ College Mrs Julie Parr said, “This visit has been arranged through a national Aim Higher initiative, and we hope that our students will feel encouraged by the experience to consider higher education opportunities.” The visit was co-ordinated and delivered by the Aimhigher Healthcare Strand (Janet Lonsdale) HLS Child Nursing lecturers (Zoe Veal, Bev Embling) and Student Ambassadors (Hannah Downing, Mark OConnell) Richard Smith, Business Development Manager from Eyears said, “As a local, specialist education and early years recruitment agency, many UWE students are already registered and doing supply work with us, so we have experience of the general high calibre UWE student. However, as this was a generic graduate ‘Find A Job Fair’ we didn’t really know what to expect from the day. To say we were pleasantly surprised would be an understatement. Both our Managing Director, Martin Bove and myself were thoroughly impressed by the graduates we met. We felt the students were a credit to themselves and to UWE. We have already received applications from students who attended the fair. We left feeling energised by the experience and confident that our graduate scheme will be a roaring success. Without a doubt we will be attending UWE job fairs in future. Well done all.” The careers team will be offering a similar event next year with plans to make it much larger after this year’s success. If anyone has any recommendations of recruitment agencies we could invite please e-mail careers@uwe.ac.uk. Trying not to throw the baby out with the bathwater: Ruby Severn, Alex McIntyre and Health and Social Care Teacher Mrs Sheila Hope Student Ruby Severn looks after a ‘young’ METIman with Lecturer in Child Nursing Zoe Veal and Student Ambassador Hannah Downing 14 ‘Find a Job’ Summer Fair Students Kelsie Davidson, Georgia Mills and Sharnie Cook getting attached to their little patients
Extensive UWE presence at national Nuclear Medicine conference Two members of the Post Graduate Nuclear Medicine Programme team (Gary Dawson and Rob Stewart, both HLS) were recently invited to present two keynote lectures and three proffered papers at the British Nuclear Medicine Society Annual Conference in Brighton. The focus of the invited keynote lecturesrelated to service redesign within clinical Nuclear Medicine practice and via interactive voting devices (Turning Point Technology) aimed to capture the opinions of the audience. Open discussion highlighted the potential opportunity to further develop formal guidance related to the use of new technologies within the current working environment, which supports initial research undertaken by UWE. The proffered papers continued the theme of workforce development UWESU wins the Gold Standard – NUS Green Impact awards and considered areas relating to mentorship, the emergence of hybrid imaging practitioners and the use of technology enhanced learning (TEL) within a postgraduate Nuclear Medicine environment. The TEL paper focused on the implementation and associated student feedback of a web based processing platform that provides students with real world experience of current Nuclear Medicine practice. This platform has been implemented within the UWE Nuclear Medicine programme in collaboration with HERMES Medical Solutions, an international company who provide specialist software support to the Nuclear Medicine community. “Evidence captured from this national meeting will lead to further research opportunities with associated professional bodies and has undoubtedly strengthened our relationship with commercial partners. Attendance at this national meeting has further developed our standing within the Nuclear Medicine community and will allow UWE to continue as a leading educational provider,” said Marc Griffiths (HLS, Nuclear Medicine Programme Leader). Students’ unions are leading the way when it comes to sustainability, greener campuses and communities across the UK, according to the latest findings of a national green scheme. UWE Students’ Union is playing its part in this and has just won a Gold Award in the NUS Green Impact awards, rising steadily from bronze to silver over the last three years – a fantastic achievement. In order to get the award, in the last year the SU has taken all sorts of action on the ground geared towards cutting its carbon footprint and embedding sustainable practices such as: recycling shoes, clothes swap events and talks with our suppliers to reduce packaging. As one of the Green Impact Student Unions, UWESU’s actions feed into a national body of experience and campaigns co-ordinated through the NUS. For those who don’t know, Green Impact Students’ Unions seek to capture the positive green innovations in students’ unions and promote them to the general public. This year the scheme has found more inspirational initiatives than ever, including a black-out day to save energy, the reallocation of end of semester unwanted food to homeless people, and a campaign against fly-tipping. “This year a record 88 students’ unions took part in our scheme, capturing an array of novel ideas, including energy 15 Gary Dawson presenting one of the keynote lectures at the Clinical Nuclear Medicine Practitioner session. Gary Dawson (first on left) and Rob Stewart (third on left), with Matt Hodgkinson (Applications Specialist) and Steve Bloomer (far right) (Director of Sales and Technical Services) at the HERMES Medical Solutions Stand, British Nuclear Medicine Society Meeting. audits of students’ homes, a rooftop vegetable garden with bee hives, and a part-time carnivore scheme to reduce the consumption of meat,” said Susan Nash, NUS’s Vice President Society and Citizenship. In support of the sustainability agenda at UWE, Steve West, Vice-Chancellor, says, “Sustainability is embedded in how we run the University and how we connect with the wider community.” In furtherance of this, the University recently ran an Education for Sustainable Development day, looking at ways to integrate all aspects of sustainability and its teaching across departments of the University and the Students’ Union, exciting news for sustainability and for joined-up thinking across the organisation, and for UWESU. Colin Offler, Student Representative Council President, said, “I’d like to take this opportunity to express my thanks to everyone from the University who supported us and assisted us in achieving this standard. It quite simply wouldn’t have been possible had we not worked together on this. Special thanks to Tessa Gordelier, Energy Manager and Vicki Harris, Sustainability Engagement Co-ordinator from Facilities whose support has been invaluable. As for 2011/12, we will aim to be even more effective by working to get all UWESU staff and students to think about sustainability issues as a matter of course in their daily lives.” More information: www.nus.org.uk/greenimpactunions UWE and sustainability: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/aboutus/ visionandmission/sustainability.aspx
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