• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs - 14 Jan 2013

• "The pressure is on students to get work experience and choose their career path early on. Students should go to university with a plan in their first six months, not leave it until the last six weeks, or they risk missing out on a decent job."

- Martin Birchall, managing director of High Fliers Research

a set of achievements, - skills, understandings and personal attributes – that make graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy (HEA, 2012).

• The skills come under the following categories:

• behavioural – enthusiasm, adaptability, resilience, thoroughness

• functional – literacy, language, numeracy, able to use ICT

• intellectual – planning, problem-solving, self management, organising own learning

• work-related – team-working, time management, customer service, consistency, reliability

Business and customer awareness – business success, innovation and taking calculated risks, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty.

Problem solving – analysing facts, creative thinking to develop solutions.

Communication and literacy – ability to produce clear, structured written work and listening and questioning.

Application of numeracy – general mathematical awareness and its application in practical contexts

Application of information technology – basic IT skills, word processing, spreadsheets, file management and use of internet search engines.

A positive attitude: a ‘can-do’ approach, new ideas and a drive to make these happen.

Entrepreneurship/enterprise: broadly, an ability to demonstrate an innovative approach, creativity, collaboration and risk taking. (CBI 2011)

Google scanned and digitized 7 million books and Wikipedia users created the world's largest encyclopedia

YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video and audio lectures by the best professors in the country available for free, and before college students built Facebook into the world's largest social network

Slideshow of images of Probation Video interview with an Offender Manager in

Blackburn Video interview with the Board of the

Lancashire Probation Trust Video interview with Kevin Robinson, Chief

Executive, Lancashire Probation Trust “Mr Consequence” – interview with reformed

“hard guy” Communities designing crime prevention

services

Video of housing and it's impact on children's health and well being

Investigation on “what does diversity mean?” Investigation into services promoting diversity Kiosk application designed to reach communities

with South Asian communities Diverse students creating value for their

communities Diverse communities – Darwen Valley

Community Centre Management Board What is Social Capital? – Darwen Arts Society

Traditional assignment – Produce an assessment report on child poverty in Lancashire

FdA Public Service Management - Social Policy & Welfare to explore….› Causes of child poverty › Implications for children› Make social policy recommendations

Lancashire Probation Trust suffers from poor reputation and lack of understanding from the public about what they do

People who were aware of offenders doing Community Payback work in the local area had lower levels of confidence in the effectiveness of the CJS than those who weren’t (36% and 43% respectively) (Home Office, November 2011)

Students provided the Board of Lancashire Probation Trust the opportunity to dispel the myths around “Community Payback” and community justice approaches generally

Beetham (2010) suggests that “the vast majority of graduate jobs require use of ICT….. an ever-more significant element of employability.”

4 C’s - Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Communication, Creativity

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