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National Association of Student EmploymentServices,Careers and Employability, University of Liverpool,150 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L69 6GDTel: 0151 794 4629 Email: nases@liv.ac.uke-news March 2010Welcome to the new-look March edition of e-news from NASES, a monthly update of all of the latest information relevantto student employment professionals. Please email: nases@liv.ac.uk with any news you would like us to include in themonthly update.NSEWThanks for supporting the week, over 50 companies advertised in our virtual fair and we had over 5,000 hits so a great event all inall, and excellently organised by Helene at the University of Wolverhampton. We are gathering feedback now from employers andjobshops so please complete the survey to pass on your comments regarding activity and especially on the timing of next yearsevent.SEOTYJust a couple of hours left to get your students and employers involved with this years National Student Employment Awards – lookout for this afternoons SEOTY stats so far and more useful information to help you and your employers get nominating! DerbyUniversity have this week been visiting their clients to talk them through SEOTY but they have also picked up loads of extra jobstoo! Have a look what other services are doing with SEOTY on campus! www.nases.org.uk/seotyNASES Conference 2010The online booking from and conference programme will be online at the beginning of April if you need to reserve your place beforethen let us know and we can invoice you direct. The theme for this years event is “Creating Futures through Employment” and anumber of key speakers have already been lined up. Don’t forget to book your travel soon to secure cheap rates, we found a greatrate on train line from London to Edinburgh return for £15 if booked now! www.nases.org.uk/conference2010Continuing Professional DevelopmentPlans are well underway to transfer the Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma and MA in the Management of Student WorkExperience from the University of Reading to Warwick University, the official handover date is 1 August 2010. Further information isstill available from Jan Digby at Reading.The NASES one day course dates have been launched and will cost £120 per session.Providing Advice and Guidance, London (29 April)Developing an On-campus Agreement, Leeds (11 May)Marketing and Generating Extra Vacancies for your Service, Liverpool (21 May)Agency Training Day – tbcStudent Employment Essentials, Liverpool (21 Sept)Working with International Students, (6 FE focussed days dates in May/June tbc)Further details www.nases.org.uk/trainingPMI2 UpdateNASES visits IndiaAGCAS and NASES visited India, as part of the PMI2 projects, they organised three separate visits to Delhi, Mumbai andBangalore for a total delegation of nine participants, Priya Chauhan, Jobshop Manager at the University of Bedfordshirerepresented NASES. A group of us were assigned to Bangalore (South India) where we conducted interviews with multi-nationaland Indian organisations, organised an Alumni Focus Group and visited Indian universities. By carrying out these activities we wereable to develop relationships with employers and UK educated Indian Alumni. We were able to gain an understanding of the IndianLabour Market which would assist advisers to help UK educated Indian graduates when they return to India. Also, we gained anunders tanding of the factors Indian students considered when making university and career choices. The findings from all threedelegations will be put together and a report will be distributed shortly.Information about all of the projects is on the NASES website www.nases.org.uk/pmi2Changes to Tier 4: student visasOn 3 March 2010 some changes to Tier 4 came into effect. Most of these changes do not affect students who made a Tier 4immigration application in order to study a course at degree level or above, or a foundation degree. However, the changes do applyto those making a Tier 4 immigration application on or after 3 March in order to study a course which is below degree level andwhich is not a foundation degree course. These students are only permitted to work a maximum of 10 hours a week during termtimeand full-time during holidays. Students on courses of 6 months or less will no longer be able to bring dependents with them tothe UK; this applies to a course at any level and not just below degree level. Students’ dependents will be banned from workingunless they qualify in their own right under Tier 1 (General) as a highly skilled migrant or as a skilled worker under Tier 2 General,Sportsperson or Minister of Religion. Additional rest rictions also apply to English language courses. All Tier 4 applicationssubmitted on or after 3 March are subject to the new regulations.For more information visit the UKBA website:UK Border Agency announcement about changes to Tier 4UK Border Agency information for Tier 4 studentsUCKISA Guidance Notes

Croner's NewslettersDid you know as a NASES member you can access the Croner's Newsletter, Solutions, providing a round up on employment lawissues – two useful articles in the latest edition are on internships and agency worker regulations. View them at www.nases.org.ukdon’t forget to login first though!Conference DatesPLACENET Conference, 1pm 28 April - 1pm 30 April 2010 in the Angel Hotel, CardiffAGCAS Careers Information and Employer Liaison Conference, 13 Jul - 15 Jul 2010, WarwickNASES Annual Conference, Carnegie College, 6 - 8 July 2010, DunfermlineASET Annual Conference 2010, 7 - 9 September 2010, Leicester UniversityLegislationNew National Minimum Wage rate increase announced from October 2010, the minimum rate for workers aged 21 and overrising to £5.93 an hour.http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_178175Area Legislation Details DateDiscrimination Equality Bill The aims of the Bill are to consolidate existing discrimination law,introduce positive action on recruitment for under-representedgroups, make it unlawful to prevent employees from discussingtheir pay, extend discrimination by association to all aspects ofdiscrimination, enable the Secretary of State to order employerswith 250 or more employees to publish information on pay(subject to further consultation and not to come into force before2013), introduce wider powers for employment tribunals to makerecommendations in discrimination claims, create a singleequality duty on public sector employers to include duties inrelation to gender reassignment, age, sexual orientation andreligion or belief, and extend age discrimination law to theprovision of goods and services.Additional paternityleaveAgency workersAdditional Paternity Additional paternity leave will be available for fathers at 20 weeksLeave Regulations 2010 after the birth of the child for a maximum of 26 weeks, if themother returns to work. The remainder of the mother’s StatutoryMaternity Pay will be paid to the father. Legislation to be passedby April 2010, with effect for parents of babies due on or after 3April 2011.Agency WorkersRegulations 2010Temporary agency workers will be entitled to equal treatmentafter 12 calendar weeks in the same job, but this will not apply tooccupational pension schemes or occupational sick pay.Forward to a Friend - Unsubscribe - Email Powered through BAM Student Marketing2010April 20101 October2010