Using a University IT agency (the WOW agency) and an internal virtual business (WOWBiz) to provide students with compulsory work experience and work related learning

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Abstract

This paper presents an initiative to use an internal IT agency to guarantee all students in a range of computing programmes with at least one compulsory work opportunity for their work related learning module. The aim is to improve our student’s employability on these programmes. Our findings in the past 3 years have indicated that this initiative has helped to steadily improve our Computing student’s employability awareness and their employment opportunities. Further plans are being made to expand this model to other programmes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASET Annual Conference 2015
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 2015 Placement and Employability Professionals’ Conference
Place of PublicationSheffield
PublisherASET
Pages104-110
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventASET Annual Conference 2015 - University of Exeter, Streatham Campus, Exeter, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Sept 201510 Sept 2015

Academic conference

Academic conferenceASET Annual Conference 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityExeter
Period8/09/1510/09/15

Keywords

  • work related learning
  • employability
  • Work placement
  • Software agency

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