Four ways in which we can collaborate to better support students in their decision-making process. At the 2021 University of Greenwich Teaching and Learning festival, we presented the findings of our research focused on decision-making …
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Issues around employability will be important across the six themes
Supporting Faculty of Business Students’ Placement Journey during the pandemic
Introduction The decision to undertake a placement year is a complex one. Students must weigh up opportunity and risk to find a balance between fear of failure and the desire for success. The students who were in …
Continue readingBusiness School Employability Office: Supporting students to master the virtual recruitment process
The Business School Employability Office (hereafter, BSEO) needed to help students to adapt quickly to recent virtual recruitment changes which resulted after a shift to remote working due to the COVID-19 crisis. In this blog …
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‘Teach First’ and Maths Education
In October 2014 the University of Greenwich hosted a London branch meeting of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. Pier Saunders (http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/CPAT/78636.html), a ‘Teach First’ Mathematics subject tutor was the invited speaker and spoke …
Continue readingA Student’s Guide to LinkedIn (a resource for Lecturers)
Introduction Students might be active on other social network websites such as facebook, Google+ and twitter but quite often ignore one of the most powerful professional networks out there: LinkedIn (Johnston, 2011). LinkedIn is the …
Continue readingWhat’s the story? Digital Storytelling in Higher Education
Storytelling Telling and listening to stories is the primary way that we make sense of the world and our place in it when we are young and developing linguistic skills. Stories written for children are …
Continue readingTransforming creative work in a digital age
Aside from the obvious assertions that people throw easily around noting that we all have to work, and that work will (has?) consume over one-third of our lives, have you really thought about what work …
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