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Learning chemistry through placements: building on good practice and identifying new opportunities

Lead Institution: Plymouth University
Collaborating with: Bournemouth University

This is a sub-project of Get STEM working: innovation with employer and student engagement

Outputs

  • A support pack for other HEIs who wish to include more SMEs and other non-traditional employers into placement schemes
  • A report highlighting the learning which has taken place amongst the project team as a result of meeting the above objectives
  • Provision of further provision of work placements for chemistry students enabling a greater number of them to benefit from, and gain credit for, work experience while undertaking their degree programmes
  • The identification and sharing of good practice that will help maintain and further enhance placement opportunities and benefit students by increasing their employability
  • Publication of a paper within the Higher Education Academy's New Directions journal (pp.13, Issue 8, Sept 2012)

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Staff involved

Prof Simon Belt
Project lead, Plymouth University

Liz Vincent
Project coordinator, Plymouth University

Christine Keenan
Bournemouth University

Penny Mitchell
Bournemouth University