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Start-up Careers Milk-Round Comes to Loughborough, Tuesday 29th May!
Looking for worthwhile, beneficial and relevant work experience? Want something to stand out on your CV? This event aims to match talented, motivated students with small start-up businesses. Graduate opportunities may be available.
Working for a smaller business offers you a wider range of opportunities and the potential to develop your entrepreneurial skills within an inspiring and ever changing work environment.
Prepared to work hard? Want to expand your career horizons?
Come to the first Loughborough Milk-Round….where the companies need you as much as you want them.
Date: Tuesday May 29th 6pm onwards
Room: James France D002
This event is organised by Student Enterprise with support from the Careers and Employability Centre and NACUE Enternships.
Student View writing competition
Milkround has been named the most widely used Graduate Recruitment website for the 5th year in a row. To celebrate 5 years at the top, we have a competition for all the budding writers out there.
To win cinema tickets for you and 4 of your friends, we would like you to write an article about the 5 people who you find most influential, be it celebrity, business person, friends, family, anyone! The article will be uploaded onto the Student View section on our website, and the person with the most page views will win the tickets!
All entries will also be able to say they have officially been published online, so this is a perfect opportunity to display your writing skills, and maybe win a cinema trip with your friends.
Articles should be between 500-1000 words, and should be submitted to studentview@milkround.com
The winner will be announced on 30th May, and we will accept submissions until the day before, although the earlier the better as you need the most page views to win.
Good luck!
Project Firefly
Are you a Thought Leader in the making? Would you like to benefit from a merit based vehicle that distinguishes you from millions of other University students and graduates?
Project Firefly stands for equality of opportunity, collaboration and openness for bright and inspired minds to provide fresh meaningful perspecitves on the problems of today and tomorrow.
Click here for further information
ENTRY DEADLINE JUNE 3RD, 2012
Intel UK
We've launched our 'Jobs at Intel' mobile app for Android and iOS, now available for download.
Search jobs, connect, interact, share and exchange ideas with real Intel employees worldwide, and receive job alerts for new positions that match your interests and skills! Check it out and let us know what you think! (Android version: http://bit.ly/HrebmG / iOS version: http://bit.ly/HWfaRf)
Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (CELTA) - online course
Cambridge CELTA Course Online
This is a ‘blended-learning’ teacher training course that includes face-to-face teaching as well as online CELTA training. Online CELTA training is assessed and moderated according to the same criteria as the face-to-face course and leads to full CELTA qualification.
As with the face-to-face course you will do teaching practice (TP) at the college with groups of ESOL students. You will complete 6 hours in total but attendance every week is required to observe fellow trainees teaching if you are not teaching yourself.
You will also need to observe qualified teachers for 4 hours in total which is also done at the college.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
You will study the following:
- How English works
- The student, the teacher and the teaching/learning context
- Planning for effective teaching of adult students of English
- Classroom Management and teaching skills
- Resources and materials
- Professional development
The online course includes interactive tasks, guided video observation and forum discussion. An advantage of the online course is the increased amount of time and support for you to reflect on and develop what you have learnt.
Online CELTA training and course structure
The online CELTA is ideal if you do not have the time to access the full face-to-face course. The online CELTA tasks and materials can be accessed at times that are convenient for you. The course is a 20 week face-to-face and online teacher training course comprising 120 hours’ input.
Participants need to attend 19 afternoon sessions of teaching practice at the main college campus in South Wigston (South Leicestershire College) and the Leicester city centre campus. You also need to observe 4 hours of experienced teacher observations which can be done at either site.
COSTS:£970 (subject to change)
Course Start Date: 17/1/13
Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (CELTA)
The CELTA certificate is one of the most widely recognised qualifications for English Language Teaching in the world and will enable you to find work in the UK or overseas. You can move on to the Certificate for ESOL Subject Specialists or after 2 years experience, you can apply for the DELTA course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
You will study the following:
- How English works
- The student, the teacher and the teaching/learning context
- Planning for effective teaching of adult students of English
- Classroom Management and teaching skills
- Resources and materials
- Professional development
Course Start Date: 14/9/12
Click here for details
The RBS EnterprisingU competition has launched, with £40,000 worth of prizes!
The competition, created by Find Invest Grow and sponsored by RBS Group and LinkedIn, offers a unique online platform for students to "road-test" their business ideas, while building the framework for a professional business plan at the same time.
It is open to students and graduates of the past 5 years: they don't have to be economics grads with business experience - anyone can enter. The platform enables your students to explore the viability of their business idea, by asking the right questions and building the appropriate framework.
Investors will be reviewing and judging entrants to decide on the 20 semi-finalists who will be selected to attend the training workshops. The 10 finalists will be pitching their business ideas to a room full of investors, with the chance of winning prizes of £25,000, £10,000, and £5,000.
The competition is now open, at http://www.rbsenterprisingu.com and I welcome you to inform your students and graduates of this opportunity.
The deadline for completed entrants is midnight on the 15th June 2012.
Adzuna Graduate of the Year 2012
Adzuna has announced its first Graduate Competition of the Year 2012 open to all recent or soon-to-be university graduates. It is titled, the graduate of the year 2012.
What could you win?
You stand to win a 1 week placement with one of the leading companies in the UK including the likes of eBay, Sony and L’oReal as well as some CV mentoring.
On top of that, you will receive a combined salary and cash prize of up to £1,000.
What are they looking for?
They are looking for an outstanding individual among the recent graduates from a recognised UK university. Whether you excel in arts, music, sports, a particular academic, language or are an outstanding student union member, leader, or social contributor, they want to hear about you and why you deserve to win.
How to apply
For more information and details on how to apply for graduate of the year, go to http://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/graduate-of-the-year.html.
Deadline is 31st May 2012 and the winner will be selected on the 1st of July 2012
The Graduate Apprentice Scheme – The Unique Kick Start to your Career
The Graduate Apprentice scheme is an unrivalled learning and career development opportunity. The scheme is completely unique to Birmingham, and will offer the winning candidate the chance to try three different firms in the city, as well as the chance to meet the decision makers of Birmingham through links with Birmingham Future. Over the course of the year the selected winning candidate will experience the full package as below -
• To experience three 16 week placements at three different diverse firms
• To learn about the Professional and Business Services sector
• To enjoy the vibrant city lifestyle offered by the UK’s youngest city, Birmingham
• To meet and network with the city’s other young professionals
• A year’s complimentary membership to Birmingham Future
• To attend ‘successful development’ seminars
• To attend the prestigious Birmingham Young Professional of the Year awards dinner
• Guidance and support of a mentor through Birmingham Future’s mentoring scheme
• Vital experience to enhance their CV and improve their job opportunities
• All whilst earning a competitive salary. (Last year it was £18,000 pro rata)
The application process for the Graduate Apprentice 2012 is now open.
Interested candidates are required to complete an application form and answer a series of questions about why they believe they should be the next Graduate Apprentice. A shortlist of candidates will then be invited to an interview and assessment day. There the new Graduate Apprentice will be selected by a panel of representatives from the placement firms.
The selected graduate will start their year in September 2012.
The application process is managed through our partner, Graduate Advantage. The link takes you to the Graduate Apprentice vacancy on their job placement listing website. All you need to do is to follow the instructions there.
The search is on to find the automotive industry talent of the future
The Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award 2012 is calling for university students to enter the much coveted and premier automotive industry talent search competition. The 2012 winner will be rewarded with a priceless work experience package comprising one month at each of the contest sponsors – Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren Automotive, Peugeot, Skoda and Toyota – as well as £7500 cash.
The contest was launched in 2009 to offer entrants a unique chance to launch an automotive industry career and is run by Autocar in partnership with Courland International and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. The 2012 award is backed by Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren Automotive, Peugeot, Skoda and Toyota.
To enter the competition, you need to answer in 500 words a brief set by Autocar editor-in-chief Steve Cropley and submit via the Autocar-Courland Next Generation website nextgen.autocar.co.uk by 31 August 2012.
The brief states: “In no more than 500 words, describe an improvement (be it an invention, innovation, a legislative change, a change to corporate policy or the adoption of a new convention) which you believe would be a worthwhile benefit to the UK automotive business. You will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of how such an improvement could be made viable and what the wider implications of it might be.”
Submissions will be welcomed from all disciplines, including – but not limited to – engineering, marketing and communications, design and media. Special credit will be given to the originality of entrants’ suggestions.
The six best entrants will attend a judging day at the home of Autocar, where they will have the chance to present their ideas to a panel of leading industry executives. Three finalists will be invited to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders’ annual dinner on 27 November, where the winner will be announced.
Win a £2,000 TARGETcourses bursary
Win one of six TARGETcourses bursaries of £2,000 to help fund your postgraduate course
Interested in taking a postgraduate course next year but struggling to find the money? We might have the answer...
TARGETcourses is giving away six bursaries of £2,000 to help pay your fees for a postgraduate course at a UK university.
Now to submit your competition entry please complete the following questions in no more than a total of 1,000 words:
- How will postgraduate study contribute to your career goals?
- How will your postgraduate experience and qualification benefit the community, the economy or indeed any other person or group
- Apart from academic knowledge, what else do you expect to learn from postgraduate study?
The winning entries will have best addressed the three questions in an engaging and truthful way. Closing date: 15 June 2012.
Institute of Ideas Academy
Does the idea of grappling with the great existential questions of free will and determinism through the works of Homer and Sophocles, Thomas Paine and Herbert Spencer, Jane Austen and Dostoevsky, Martin Luther and Jean-Paul Sartre, appeal to you? Do you have a passion for the greatest works in the historical, philosophical, classical, and literary cannons? Would you like to spend a long summer weekend in a stimulating and open environment, with interesting, like minded people from all walks of life? If so, then the The Institute of Ideas Academy, organised by the Institute of Ideas is definitely for you. The full price may be a challenge for students, so this year we have launched a new Academy Scholarship Programme for students between the ages of 18-26.
The Institute of Ideas Academy is a three day residential retreat from Friday 20th July to Monday 23rd July, in which we aim to get away from the overly prescriptive nature of debate in society at large, and be unashamedly esoteric and intellectual for a weekend, in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. This year, there are three separate lecture series on Classics, Literature and History as well as a plenary series on Free will and Determinism. They will explore texts as diverse as Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Homers Illiad, right through to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Sartre’s Nausea, in the hope that together we maycome to better understand the great question of whether we are truly free, or whether we are determined by human nature, circumstances or indeed God.
As well as this, the Academy Scholars will also have three additional lectures organised for them on Liberty, the role of The Public Intellectual, and the Western Canon on Friday 20th July, prior to the main programme which will begin on the morning of Saturday 21st July.
Students from all disciplines are encouraged to apply to the Scholarship Programme, and you will be joining Institute of Ideas members from every possible walk of life; from Professors and academics, to other students, Barristers, film makers and writers. The one thing that they all share is a passion for knowledge. And as such, the environment is one of free thinking, in which everybody will have the opportunity to cultivate themselves in beautiful surroundings, with good books, good food and drink, and amongst good company.
The scholarship programme offers a limited number of students the chance to attend for the heavily subsidised price of £60 for three nights’ accommodation and full board at the luxury Wyboston Lakes complex in Bedfordshire.
To apply for an Academy Scholarship, please submit a 500-word (max) essay on the question: “What is the value of the humanities today?” Please also submit a 300-word (max) motivation on why you in particular deserve to attend The Academy. Submit applications online by 11am May 15 2012. When we have successfully received your application you will be sent the reading list so you can start preparing while we evaluate the applications. All successful candidates will be notified on June 1st 2012. For more information on the Scholarship Programme, please email scholarship@instituteofideas.com
To learn more about the Academy itself, and to see full details of the lectures and schedule, please visit: http://www.instituteofideas.com/academy2012.html
Frontrunner - For disabled students
4-6 July 2012
Liverpool, UK
Learn more than what it means to be a leader. Learn how to lead.
Take part in an active three day leadership course where you will:
• visit organisations from every sector
• meet leaders from a range of backgrounds
• consult on real-life business challenges
• try your hand at leading teams.
Want to develop your leadership skills?
Apply to attend this FREE course!
Deadline: 21 May 2012
The Guardian Student Media Awards
Enter the Guardian Student Media Awards 2012 and put your greatness to the test while on work experience at the Guardian or NME. Do you want it badly enough?
Entries close on 1 June and 29 June according to which category you enter.
Get online for details
The GlaxoSmithKline Residential Chemistry Training Experience (2012)
This is a fully-funded, week-long training course designed to give you practical experience of the work of a graduate chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. Based in the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) research laboratories we will provide you with personalised laboratory tuition together with coaching in interview technique, presentation skills and working in teams.
This programme now in its ninth year will be held at the GlaxoSmithKline Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, on 9th -14th September 2012.
The Training Experience is one approach that GSK uses to encourage high calibre chemists from a variety of backgrounds to apply for positions in the pharmaceutical industry; therefore:
- You should be an analytical/computational/synthetic chemistry undergraduate about to enter your final year of study.
- Applications are particularly invited from ethnic minority undergraduates.
- Applications from mature students who have elected to study chemistry at a later stage in their career and,
- Applications from chemistry graduates who have taken a career break or moved into another area of work/business and wish to return to a career in chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry, are also welcomed.
If you would like to gain an insight into the pharmaceutical industry and be part of this interactive programme, please complete and return an application from no later than 15th June 2012 to:
RCTE9 Administrator
Respiratory Medicinal Chemistry Department
Medicines Research Centre
GlaxoSmithKline
Stevenage
Herts
SG1 2NY
Alternatively, if you would prefer to send your completed application electronically, please request an application form using the following email address: uzy55557@gsk.com
Download the application form here.
See the full potential discover more with Lloyds Banking Group insight days
With thousands of employees serving millions of customers in the UK and across the world, we’re proud to be one of the UK’s leading financial services organisations. And, with a diverse portfolio of brands, we have an impressive variety of opportunities to match.
But you don’t have to wait until you graduate to see this for yourself.
Our Insight Days are designed to give undergraduates a real sense of who we are, and how we work and the expanse of opportunity offered by our undergraduate and graduate opportunities. You’ll also have the chance to take part in one of our assessment centre group exercises to see if you’ve got what it takes. And, if you haven’t considered a career in financial services before, you’ll be surprised at the variety of career options open to you.
So if you’re ambitious and full of initiative, someone who wants to see and experience more, come to one of our Insight Days. It could be your first step towards a fascinating career.
Solihull, West Midlands - Monday 18th June 2012
Leeds - Thursday 21st June 2012
Edinburgh - Monday 25th June 2012
London - Friday 29th June 2012
Find out more and apply at lloydsbankinggrouptalent.com
Welcome to a life-changing experience The University of Nottingham International Summer Schools: China and Malaysia
Spend two weeks studying in and exploring these
magnificent countries in June and July 2012
Programmes include:
China Campus:
• Digital Media, Culture and Creative Industries in China
• China's Encounter with the World
• How to do Business in China
Malaysia Campus:
• Politics, Culture and the Media in South East Asia
• Doing Business in Asia
For more information, visit
www.nottingham.ac.uk/internationalsummerschools