• Project Summary
• Project Outputs
  • Introduction to the Employer Engagement Toolkit
  • Employer Engagement - Formulating Strategy
  • Labour Market Intelligence
  • Customer Relationship Management Systems
  • Relationship Development and Maintenance
  • Employer Engagement and the HE Curriculum
  • Background information on Higher Level Apprenticeships, Foundation Degrees and APL
  • Conference Presentation
• Final Project Report

Project Outputs > Employer Engagement and the HE Curriculum

Falmouth Harbour Commissioners has linked with Falmouth Marine School (Plymouth University)

in order to sponsor student employability opporutnities, fulfilling its corporate social responsibility remit and developing apotential workforce. This case study outlines how the activity originated and what were the key contributions from the employers.

Case study 4: Employer involvement in the STEM HE curriculum

This case study describes how Petroc's Sports Department provided a real world project for second year Foundation Degree Computing students that involved a significant amoutn of programming as well as experience of being customer focused.

The project involved creating a website that would allow pupils from different schools to upload their tag rugby results onto a ‘Petroc Tag Rugby mini web site’ where they could be sorted along with the results from other local schools, schools competing nationally and internationally. 

Student feedback is testament to the potential impact on employability skills of this kind of real world project: "As well as an improvement in technical ability, I gained some valuable experience during this project especially in regards to communicating with a project customer. Whereas I have had plenty of experience in working to a deadline, listening and meeting the requirements of a real customer was relatively new to me".

Case study 1: Employer involvement in the STEM HE curriculum

This case study describes how a Devon art gallery provided a real world project for a group of Foundation Degree Computing students at Petroc.

The students created a professional website which involved them using of the Agile/Scrum Project Management Framework, a framework used by many of the largest computing companies.

Case study 2: Employer involvement in the STEM HE curriculum

This case study outlines how  a student placement as part of the BSc Hons Equitation Science Programme at Duchy College, Cornwall led on to an employer getting involved in a range of other curriculum activities including guest lectures and identifying titles for the final year Honours Project module.

Case study 3: Employer involvement in the STEM HE curriculum

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