Peer Mentoring Induction Period Challenge – ‘Develop a strategy to raise awareness of one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to students on your course’

This challenge gave students the opportunity to become familiar with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, work as a team and demonstrate their creativity. Find out how it worked and view some of the fantastic winning entries.

Dr Sara Marsham

Embedding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within first year biosciences skills teaching

The School of Natural and Environmental Sciences have utilised the Sustainable Development Goals as a platform to develop students’ global awareness and essential graduate attributes. Find out more from Dr Sara Marsham.

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Your Future: Occupational Awareness Module

The aim of the Your Future module was to enhance students’ awareness of roles that they could go into; enhance their employability for their ideal roles through reflecting on, and developing, their skills; and also enhance their resourcefulness. Hear more from Dr Catherine Douglas.

Eugene Wong

Integrated Work Study Programme

Students taking part in the Integrated Work Study Programme have the unique opportunity to deliver effective solutions to real industry problems. This case study is an example of how academic practice and industrial engagement can combine to enhance the student learning outcomes. 

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Case Study: An exploration of individual student generated videos creation as an assessment method

Find out how Nick started using student generated video content for assessments and read about the results of doing so. In this case study you will also be able to view examples of student generated video content that was used for assessments.

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Developing Digital Residency for Executive Education Learners

Leadership Development & Organisation Futures Team (LDOF) Newcastle University Business School  Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences What did you do? We applied the Digital Residency framework to the design and development of the online spaces for learners on the Executive Education Programmes, creating learning activities and resources that support a continuum of engagement across Read more about Developing Digital Residency for Executive Education Learners[…]

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Developing more diverse and inclusive capstones for undergraduate management and business students

Two alternative assessments were introduced by Newcastle University Business School, designed to meet diverse student and employer needs. Find out more from Angela Mazzetti.

Laura Brown

Integrating employability and enterprise into the maths curriculum.

Colleagues in the Careers Service and the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics are working together to deliver the Mathematical Skills and Career Management module. This case study shares how they are successfully embedding employability into the curriculum.

Creativity and Innovation Challenge – A Combined Honours Case Study

Creativity and Innovation challenges are interactive, intensive, competitive student events that the Enterprise Team run with a variety of disciplines. Students are put into teams and presented with the opportunity to work collaboratively on a real life ‘problem’ that they need to solve through developing a product, service or intervention. Read on to find out what happened in Combined Honours…