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Computing Graduate Employability: Sharing Practice
Computing is one of the largest subject areas in Higher Education, and is taught in almost every institution, graduating around 9,000 students each year. However Computing graduates are recorded as having the highest unemployment rates for all subjects (11% for Computing compared with an overall rate of 7% for graduates of all subjects). This new report, jointly published by the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) and Higher Education Academy (HEA) highlights the depth, complexity and richness of employability practices in the sector, and aims to share those practices more widely. The report places practice in a comparative context so that departments may learn what works from each other. It draws on research gathered from over fifty Higher Education institutions in a series of workshops, focus groups and interviews. Throughout, participantsâ voices are given priority, with the report structured around the common employability challenges faced by academics. Within that structure, clusters of similar practice (those which appear in several institutions) are presented, together with a series of showcases providing rich detail of specific interventions.
Challenges discussed within the reportâs three themes of âAddressing Employabilityâ, âCurriculum Issuesâ and âPlacementsâ include âthe employability agendaâ, âstudent engagementâ, âcurriculum designâ, âreaching âtipping pointââ and âfinding alternatives to the âsandwich yearââ and are balanced throughout with a âView from Employersâ.
Clusters identify good practice from âhackathonsâ, competitions, mentoring, âcompulsionâ, an employer-led curriculum, industry-focused projects and placement preparation, application, monitoring, return, assessment and alternatives. Showcases highlight practice in âauditing employabilityâ, âdedicated placement supportâ, âmultiplicity of opportunitiesâ, âshort placement modulesâ, âthink futureâ, âsummer internshipsâ and âtransition weekâ from the universities of York, Kent, London South Bank, West of Scotland, Edinburgh Napier, Southampton and Brunel London, amongst other
Teens, Social Media, and Privacy
Teens share a wide range of information about themselves on social media sites; indeed the sites themselves are designed to encourage the sharing of information and the expansion of networks. However, few teens embrace a fully public approach to social media. Instead, they take an array of steps to restrict and prune their profiles, and their patterns of reputation management on social media vary greatly according to their gender and network size
Spartan Daily October 13, 2009
Volume 133, Issue 24https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1292/thumbnail.jp
Examining the issues & challenges of email & e-communications. 2nd Northumbria Witness Seminar Conference, 24-25 Oct 2007 Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.
These proceedings capture the content of the second Witness Seminar hosted by Northumbria Universityâs School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences. It followed the success of the first witness seminar in terms of its format and style but differed in that it focused on one topic - managing email and other electronic communications technologies from a records perspective. As before the witnesses were invited to share their views and opinions on a specific aspect taking as their starting point a pertinent published article(s). Three seminars explored the business, people and technology perspectives of email and e-communications, asking the following questions: What are the records management implications and challenges of doing business electronically? Are people the problem and the solution? Is technology the problem or panacea? The final seminar, 'Futurewatch', focused on moving forward, exploring new ways of working, potential new technologies and what records professionals and others need to keep on their radar screens
Spartan Daily, March 8, 2016
Volume 146, Issue 16https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily_2016/1014/thumbnail.jp
Panel II: Public Appropriation of Private Rights: Pursuing Internet Copyright Violators
It seems to me that the story of music on the Internet over the past five or six years is the story of two fantasies colliding. The first fantasy is that information wants to be free, that with the Internet we can throwaway all the bottles and just have the wine and the free flow of data, which apparently was generated from somewhere and then circulated forever. So, there was that fantasy, that we would not need copyright anymore because everything would be available to everyone. The other fantasy is the record companies\u27 fantasy of perfect control, that there would be some way to control every use, every copy, of music that was digital
Spartan Daily, April 12, 2018
Volume 150, Issue 31https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily_2018/1030/thumbnail.jp
Spartan Daily, April 12, 2018
Volume 150, Issue 31https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily_2018/1030/thumbnail.jp
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