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20 May 2013
Graduate Success Project: AGCAS findings launched
AGCAS has launched two major outputs - a project report and a new website - from the BIS-funded joint AGCAS/AGR Graduate Success Project, which explores how graduates from a range of backgrounds make the transition to the job market.
The aims of the project were to encourage employers to think seriously about social mobility, to investigate graduate and employer perspectives of the graduate employment market and to increase awareness of the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) amongst employers - and promote its use as good recruitment practice.
The report presents the project's main findings and highlights important issues that have implications for various stakeholders, including policymakers, HE institutions and careers services, employers, and students and graduates themselves.
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19 May 2013
Yorkshire universities celebrate internship project success
The Yorkshire Universities Internship Project was developed in response to the current graduate employment environment. The higher education sector recognised a growing need for graduates with meaningful work experience, and for universities to provide effective employability development and employment opportunities. In response to this, four universities in the Yorkshire region made the decision to run an internship programme of placements within their institutions, in partnership with Yorkshire Universities.
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18 May 2013
SME research - GTI survey live
GTI Media is about to start a major research project with STEP to survey the views of UK small businesses towards graduates and the opportunities for them to have productive careers in smaller businesses. The project team hopes to establish contact with organisations that have taken graduates on before (for either permanent positions or work experience), or those which are thinking about doing so in the future - and invites AGCAS members to help promote the survey amongst the small businesses HE careers services have contact with.
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17 May 2013
Vacancies on the Graduate Labour Market Task Group
The Graduate Labour Market Task Group (GLAM) is seeking two new members to join the group. GLAM works with HESA, HEFCE and other key stakeholders on a range of issues concerning DLHE and related data collections. It also develops good practice and resources to enable careers services to utilise graduate labour market information in innovative ways and support students in their journey after graduation.
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13 May 2013
Graduate labour market still on the up
Heads of higher education careers and employability services tend towards believing that the graduate labour market was more buoyant in the first quarter of 2013 (January to March) than at the same time last year. 93.1% of those surveyed by AGCAS reported that, in their experience, the graduate labour market was the same or more buoyant (41.4% better, 51.7% same) compared with 3.4% who believed it was less buoyant. 3.4% said they did not know.
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2 May 2013
Building services engineering: AGCAS ambassador needed
AGCAS is seeking a liaison officer (ALO) for the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), the professional body that exists to support the science, art and practice of building services engineering.
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1 May 2013
Vacancies on the AGCAS Board
To reflect the recent changes to the AGCAS mission and strategic aims, three new positions are being created on the AGCAS Board of Directors. This is an exciting time to be part of an executive team with a renewed vision and focus.
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22 Apr 2013
Thousands of graduates into work: GO Wales reflects after ten years
For the last ten years Go Wales, a work placement project funded by the Welsh Government and European Social Fund, has been the link between employment and personal development for numerous graduates looking for their big break in the world of work. The project supports the development and retention of graduates' high-level skills, knowledge and innovative potential in businesses in Wales, particularly small and medium-sized businesses.
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22 Apr 2013
Nottingham leads UK-Indonesia careers initiative
The University of Nottingham recently held an event designed to support Indonesian students based at universities across the UK who return to their home country to work after graduating. The event, organised by the Careers and Employability Service and the International Office, reached out to Indonesian students in Britain and encouraged them to take future opportunities in business with Indonesian and British companies.
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22 Apr 2013
Vacancy on the AGCAS Diversity Task Group
The AGCAS Diversity Task Group is seeking a new member and would like applications from AGCAS members with an interest in joining them. The group is lively and creative with a passion and ongoing commitment to diversity issues. They would like to hear from members who share these qualities and who have particular experiences, strengths or interests that could be brought to the group.
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