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Di Bulley Subject: S&W Careers Hub Newsletter January2020 From: Auriel Chandarana <[email protected]> Sent: 31 January 2020 09:56 Subject: S&W Careers Hub Newsletter January2020 Swindon and Wiltshire Careers Hub Newsletter - January 2020 Distribution: School/College Careers and SLT teams, Enterprise Advisers The Swindon and Wiltshire Careers Hub Network is supported by Wiltshire Council, Swindon Borough Council and Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership. NAW2020 We know it is a busy term for you, so we are here to help get you prepared for National Apprenticeship Week 2020 with as much planning time as possible! We have everything you need, from Activity Packs, to Subject Snapshot guides, updated Posters to teacher talk films, and much more! Download our handy one-pager, to help you celebrate the most exciting week in apprenticeships with your students and staff! Download our handy one-pager University Bursary for Wiltshire & Swindon Students The Wiltshire Community Foundation offers grants to young people in Wiltshire and Swindon who need support with the costs of studying an undergraduate degree at university. The One Degree More bursary is £1,600 for each year of a course. We are now open for applications and an application pack can be requested from our website here: www.wiltshirecf.org.uk/university The 2018 Student Money Survey revealed that around 70% of students don’t even apply for grants, bursary’s or scholarships, believing that they aren’t eligible, and yet, on average there are at least 10 scholarships at any one time which are open to all students. That means that everyone is eligible for something. 1 Third wave of further education providers invited to teach pioneering new T Levels from 2022 Update from gov.uk - Eight new T Levels including Legal, Accounting and Manufacturing will be taught from 2022 alongside the 10 courses already on offer from 2020 and 2021. Please see recent report attached. Third wave of further education providers invited to teach pioneering new T Levels from 2022 The Platform Project Attached is a case study done on the Kingsdown School alternative provision last year. It proved so successful they have doubled the size of the programme this year and the group are going to The Platform every week now. If anyone is interested attached is the general proposal for designing and pricing possible alternative curriculum programmes. Everything is flexible depending on the needs of the school and group. Please contact Sadie Sharp if you are interested. [email protected] FREE Youth Enterprise Half Term Challenge - Platform Project are pleased to announce that our February half term challenge will be launching our new youth-led business. A Digital Media Marketing Agency which will be trading like a normal business, but helping Not For Profit Organisations and small businesses improve their online presence, and the agency will be run entirely by our youth participants, with them doing everything from taking live client briefs, designing branding, creating websites, making videos, and so much more. This is obviously a great opportunity for young people to get experience in creative and digital roles, as well as learning critical employability skills like, teamwork, personal organisation and meeting new people etc. As always participating in the challenge is COMPLETELY FREE (!) and is designed in a way that will help those from a range of different backgrounds with a range of different needs, you can find the poster below, and you can download a PDF of the poster by clicking the button below. https://cdn.website- editor.net/b2d4f6c227a54949948b676affc847b5/files/uploaded/DigitalMediaMarketingAgency%2520A4%2 520.pdf Save the Date: evening careers event at the RUH The Royal United Hospitals Bath will be running its next evening careers event on Tuesday 3rd March (5.00 – 7.30pm). Booking is currently not open but they wanted to share this ‘Save the Date’ information with you before the Christmas holidays. The RUH evening careers event is aimed at those in Year 10 or above who live or study in the RUH catchment area. It is a great opportunity for people to meet staff members and talk about careers in the NHS. Places are limited, and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Due to high demand for this event, it will only be open to those who live or study in the RUH catchment area. Visit the RUH’s website in the second week of February to find out more information on how to book a place. National Career Guidance Show 2 The National Career Guidance Show returns to Ashton Gate Stadium on Thursday 5th March 2020. The event is aimed at Careers Leaders, Careers Advisors and Enterprise Advisors and anyone who works to provide advice, guidance and information to young people and adults. The show is free to attend and will feature a provider exhibition and a seminar programme on a range of contemporary topics. You can register to attend the event here. The Big Assembly The Big Assembly is a live digital broadcast allowing students the opportunity to discuss their careers, it is also interactive so you and your students will be able to ask questions to the panel to be answered live! http://www.bigassembly.org/#1567696748580-2d9e3d0b-8325 STEAM Fair and Tech Meet Invitation Following the hugely successful ‘Science and Engineering: What Wiltshire has to offer’ STEM Fair in October 2018, Wiltshire Council and Learning Resources Hub are holding a second event, the STEAM Fair, on 25 February 2020, once again in the Atrium at County Hall, Trowbridge http://rightchoice.wiltshire.gov.uk/Article/69576# Report: Young people, their futures and access to relatable role models Future First has published a report, Young people, their futures and access to relatable role models, on the ways teachers and schools engage their alumni and the way young people perceive their futures. Robinson College Spring Term events Women in Science Festival: 22 - 23 March 2020 Robinson College is delighted to once again host our Women in Science Festival in March 2020. Students will have the opportunity to stay in College accommodation, meet current students and leading female academics at the University of Cambridge, be challenged in academic sessions, and take part in our Science Fair. We hope that students who participate will get a real taste of university life and explore the broad spectrum of STEM subjects that the University offers. There are 120 places for students in Years 12, with 64 overnight places available for those who wish to arrive on the Sunday. Students may book onto this event individually, or teachers may book places for a group of students and accompany them to the festival. Please note: if students book individually, the maximum number of places per school is 6. For more information and booking forms, please see here: https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/news/women- stem-festival-2020 Teachers' Conference The Teachers' Conference is a two-day residential conference at Robinson College for teachers and advisors at state-maintained schools in the UK. Delegates are invited to stay in College accommodation overnight and dine with Fellows and students on the first night in the Plenary Room. On the second day we offer a full programme of talks and sessions from admissions staff, academic fellows and students of the 3 university, giving an insight into Cambridge course structures, the application process, the data we use when making admissions decisions, interviews, and how to make a competitive application. There will also be an admissions talk from the Robinson Admissions Tutor. The event is entirely free of charge to attend (including meals and overnight accommodation). We would like to make our Teachers’ Conference as accessible as possible so if there are financial barriers that prevent a representative from your school from attending then please don’t hesitate to contact [email protected] and we would be very happy to discuss options with you. School Visits - Spring 2020 I will be in Robinson College's link area on the following dates: Gloucestershire: 25 - 26 February Swindon/Wiltshire: 9 - 10 March Wandsworth: dates flexible, please get in touch if you would like to organise a visit I am able to give presentations on applying to Oxbridge/highly selective universities, or students life/Higher Education more generally, as well as giving advice regarding A-Level choices etc. If these dates do not work for your school, please get in touch and I am happy to arrange an alternative. UK Careers Fairs 2020 UK Careers Fairs are holding events in Bath and Swindon during 2020. The events are open to everyone and completely free to attend. JobFest – Tuesday, February 4, 2020. 10:00am – 6:00pm, Steam Museum, Swindon Bath Careers Fair - Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 10:00am-2:00pm, Apex City of Bath Hotel Swindon Careers Fair - Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 10:00am-2:00pm, The Platform Royal United Hospital Bath We are pleased to announce that the Royal United Hospital Bath is now open for applications for Nursing work experience. For instructions on how to apply, please visit our website. This is an excellent opportunity for those considering a career in nursing or becoming a healthcare assistant. For more information about nursing, please visit the Health Careers website. This work experience is based on an adult nursing ward but if you have service users who are interested in paediatric nursing or critical care nursing, then this would be a good alternative as we do not offer work experience in these areas. The application deadline for these opportunities is midnight on Sunday 16th February 2020. If applicants have any questions, they can contact [email protected] or call 01225 824281.