Teaching Prize Success – winners of the Barbara Morris Prize for Learning Support 2013<\/b><\/p>\n
The School would like to congratulate Dr Paul Fretwell, Director of Learning and Teaching and Employability and Events Coordinator, Ann Howe who are joint winners of the Barbara Morris Prize for Learning Support 2013, along with the Student Support Team at the School of Arts at Canterbury, for their dedication and input into the \u2018Skills Enhancement Week\u2019 in February, 2013.<\/p>\n
The Skills Enhancement Week took place between Monday 18th<\/sup> and Friday 22nd<\/sup> February, which replaced \u2018Reading Week\u2019, provided an invigorated forum and a focussed few days of informative and inspirational events for students to be able to enhance their skills leading to improved employability.<\/p>\n Students were able to earn University \u2018Employability Points\u2019 by attending these events and prizes were on offer to the student who attended the most sessions and the event went on to lead to a number of student placements and internships with organisations such as Microsoft Computer Games, Zealous, Earcom Ltd and other work experience opportunities.<\/p>\n The team were dedicated to securing an array of industry-recognised guest speakers who provided lively talks, along with a week\u2019s schedule of mixed study skills and employability-related workshops. \u00a0Activities such as workshops on self-employment, entrepreneurship, developing partnerships and networking spanned the five days and there were personal and professional development workshops too, where students could learn about how to build and develop their online presence and how to \u2018market\u2019 themselves, hone their CV writing skills and learn about the Year Abroad possibilities.<\/p>\n The judging panel were impressed with the team\u2019s employment-focussed student support, as the Skills Enhancement Week clearly enriched the student\u2019s experiences and provided a model which could be emulated across other the other Schools. It was also deemed an excellent example of external engagement, benefiting both students and the University through collaboration.<\/p>\n \u2018The week proved to be a great success and was even opened up to other University students to attend\u2019 said prize winner Ann Howe. \u2018It provided a great opportunity for career networking for students with external industry employers and gave students a chance to think holistically about their education, develop an awareness of skills needed for future employment and to actively build their own employability\u2019<\/p>\n The Barbara Morris Prize of \u00a35,000 is awarded annually for outstanding work in the area of learning support. The University encourages applications from all staff in the University, including those who work with or for students in a teaching, non-teaching or support role.<\/p>\n Prizes will be awarded by the Vice-Chancellor at a dedicated lunchtime ceremony on Thursday 3rd\u00a0October in Darwin Conference Suite at the Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n Read more about the Teaching Prizes <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teaching Prize Success – winners of the Barbara Morris Prize for Learning Support 2013 The School would like to congratulate Dr Paul Fretwell, Director of Learning and Teaching and Employability and Events Coordinator, Ann Howe who are joint winners of the Barbara Morris Prize for Learning Support 2013, along with the Student Support Team at … Continue reading Barbara Morris Prize benefits students in Skills Enhancement Week<\/span>