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Employability: Preparing students for the 21 st Century workplace

Employability: Preparing students for the 21 st Century workplace. Richard England University of Leicester, UK rwe5@le.ac.uk. Acknowledgements. Kip Jeffrey – Employer engagement, UoL SPLINT CETL - financial and IT support Sally Smith – MGeol student in Dept. of Geology

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Employability: Preparing students for the 21 st Century workplace

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  1. Employability: Preparing students for the 21st Century workplace Richard England University of Leicester, UK rwe5@le.ac.uk

  2. Acknowledgements Kip Jeffrey – Employer engagement, UoL SPLINT CETL - financial and IT support Sally Smith – MGeol student in Dept. of Geology Colm Jordan - British Geological Survey Natural England – access to field areas

  3. Aims Employability – what this means in the classroom Environmental Site Investigation Methods module Outcomes

  4. Employability • Preparing students for the workplace • not training – impossible given range of potential jobs • What jobs will students be doing in 2021 and beyond? • How are they best going to be prepared for this?

  5. Employability Discussions with employers, staff and students Communication skills IT skills Mathematical skills Subject specific knowledge Working practices*

  6. Site Investigation module • 2 parts – Emulating industry practice • Desk study • Review existing work and data – at Leicester • GIS • Plan fieldwork • Preliminary report – formative assessment • Field study • Fieldwork – GIS to digital mapping • Data evaluation and integration • Report - summative assessment

  7. Desk Study • Fieldwork module • Lab exercise: • Gather data/maps compile GIS etc • Plan survey • Short report

  8. Field exercise Digital geological mapping Sample collecting Geophysical data acquisition

  9. BGS Sigma Mobile Software Software Download from BGS website Software requirements: MS Access ArcGIS 9.2 Hardware requirements: Tablet PC or similar MS Windows mobile OS

  10. Learning materialsfor digital mapping • Guide for Academic staff – also need training! • Quick start Guide for students • Introductory lecture • Laboratory exercise • Field exercises • Assessment • Shortly available from SPLINT CETL website • http://www.le.ac.uk/gg/splint/

  11. ‘Field’ Exercise • Integrate field data with lab. study • Final report – used by following year

  12. Outcomes • Simulation of workplace practice • IT and report writing skills • Teamwork • Subject specific knowledge • Student engagement in data collection process

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