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Glendinning, Irene, Domanska, Anna and Orim, Stella-Maris (2011) Employability enhancement through student advocacy. Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 10 (2). pp. 16-22. doi:10.11120/ital.2011.10020016 ISSN 1473-7507.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11120/ital.2011.10020016
Abstract
Many UK universities employ their enrolled students on a part-time basis as student ambassadors and in teaching support roles, for example as student proctors (Hampton and Potter 2009). However it is common elsewhere, for example in the United States of America, for universities and colleges to employ students in a much wider range of support roles (Hubbard and Klute, 2009). The many advantages of this strategy, to both the institution and to students, became apparent when a similar policy was implemented by a UK university from 2008. This paper focuses on feedback from some computing students based in the Student Experience Enhancement Unit (SEE-u) in Coventry University’s Faculty of Engineering and Computing after being appointed as Student Advocates. Feedback collected recently from student advocates has been used as evidence in this paper to show that the employment and development of students as part time staff to undertake a wide range of tasks, can be an effective way to increase their graduate employment prospects and to improve their value to potential future employers.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Employability, Education, Higher -- Employment -- Great Britain, College students -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1473-7507 | ||||
Official Date: | 15 December 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | 10 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 16-22 | ||||
DOI: | 10.11120/ital.2011.10020016 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 September 2022 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 September 2022 |
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