bs_bs_banner Higher Education Quarterly, 0951-5224 DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12055 Volume 68, No. 3, July 2014, pp 348–372 The Role of Work Experience in the Future Employability of Higher Education Graduates Ruth Helyer, Teesside University, r.helyer@tees.ac.uk Dionne Lee, Teesside University, d.lee@tees.ac.uk Abstract Many new graduates are finding it difficult to obtain graduate-level work and impossible to break into the sectors they were aiming at. In order to address this, higher education
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Reflection of Better, by Atul Gawande In Better, Atul Gawande takes the reader to courtrooms, clinics, war zones, and execution chambers to demonstrate the incredible environments in which doctors care for and treat patients. While drawing on a vast array of sources, including his own personal experience, Gawande interweaves into nearly every chapter fascinating vignettes about the most important person in his view of medicine: the patient. By ensuring that every message is personalized in this
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had met three times before, at the antenatal, birth, and six-to-eight week contacts. I had cancelled a three-to-four month visit with her that day on the advice of my mentor. Caroline was an experienced mum and the visit had been mainly to aid my development (Appendix One). She had sounded fine on the phone and had told me she was coming into clinic. Borton’s (1970) reflective model will be used to guide this essay, and I will analyse how the experience has improved my skills in building therapeutic
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the positive side 2. Way of thinking • As a result of the research I did, it appears that one of outcomes most useful to the students has been a development of self-awareness through reflection. Which means the higher education led to the development of a more thoughtful, enquiring and open-minded approach in both professional and personal life. Because there are chances for people to take lessons about how to become open-mindedness, or a critical thinker. • There are lots of chance
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As defined by the creators of the board game, the primary object of Forbidden Island is to, “ . . . work together to keep Forbidden Island from sinking in order to buy enough time to capture its four treasures. Once . . . captured . . . (the team of adventurers) must make it to Fools’ Landing and escape by helicopter to win. If however, the island sinks before (the team) can complete (its) tasks, the mission ends in defeat!” Since a game like Forbidden Island was designed to encourage collaboration
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Overview This paper offers the non-subject specialist an overview of the literature which has influenced the development of listening and interpersonal skills in UK higher education. It refers to articles, seminal texts and writers within the field. In order to provide some context, the first section of the review covers some issues relating to the definition of listening and interpersonal skills and some examples are presented to demonstrate their interdependence. The importance of these skills
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You are required to write up a personal learning summary of 1,500 to 2,000 words that covers your learning, both in class, in group work and your own private study, for the relevant period. This report is due not later than Monday, 2 April 2012. Learning summaries should devote equal space to the following two sections: (i) The three most important areas of learning (in terms of learning outcomes detailed in the course outline) which you, personally, have gained through your work on the course
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PNR400 Role Development for the Practical Nurse Leadership Reflective Essay Assignment Grade: 10% of final grade Length: 4 pages maximum, Due Date: October 19, 2015 at 7:00 pm (see below) * 12 font, New Times Roman, double spaced, excluding reference list and title page. * Hard copy and electronic copy due at beginning of class as assigned by professor * Include a copy of the rubric with the hardcopy of your essay * Submit an electronic copy to Safe Assign on your
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Darr 6/9/12 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………….3 Problem Statement………………………………………………………….4 Literature Review……………………………………………………………5 Analysis……………………………………………………………………….9 Proposed Solutions……………………………………….………………..11 Reflection…………………………………………………………………….13 References……………………………………………………………………15 Introduction The retail industry is pretty stabilized in today’s economy. The ability to have a competitive advantage is the key to survival. The grocery business has a history
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be stimulating as well as useful for those who were unable to attend. As with all of Dialogue NW activities this event was more than a training session telling people how to do it – instead we wanted to provide a space for critical discussion and reflection. Our focus was on the learners and what success meant to them, acknowledging that this may be very different to official concerns and discourses around recruitment, retention and achievement. If we start from the learner, then success is more about
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