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  • Staff Training and Development Programme

    Practice No. 1284

    Last modified: 27/10/2011 11:20:31

    Institution: The Royal Veterinary College

    The courses and workshops outlined in our programme are designed to meet the needs of all groups of staff within the College and offer a wide variety of development opportunities in five key areas:

     

    • Health & Safety

    • Information Technology

    • Leadership & Management

    • Skills & Knowledge

    • Wellbeing

     

    In our 2009/10 training programme, we introduced a section specific to the development of researchers, in response to principle 4 of the Concordat. This section has continued to develop following feedback received from research staff, line managers and principal investigators.

     

    Research staff may also attend any of the other Staff Training & Development courses offered in the programme.

  • GRADnews

    Practice No. 1256

    Last modified: 17/06/2011 10:47:12

    Institution: University of Strathclyde

    GRADnews is a monthly e-newsletter aimed at postgraduate research students within the university and features information on a wealth of internal and external career-development related opportunities available to the community.

  • The Talent Pool

    Practice No. 974

    Last modified: 19/11/2009 14:03:29

    Institution: University of Birmingham

    The Talent Pool provides a unique opportunity for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers at all stages of their studies to engage with external organisations and develop into the next generation of academics, business consultants and entrepreneurs. The Talent Pool offers enterprise training that creates a network of students with various skills and ambitions who are able to make time for work experience, placements, internships, consultancy contracts or the chance to set up their own business, by understanding the important skills and strategies behind business ventures. The Talent Pool can be compared with other programmes that have been used at the University in previous years, such as Medici and SPEED.

  • Volunteering Monitoring and Evaluation

    Practice No. 968

    Last modified: 18/11/2009 15:18:50

    Institution: University of Birmingham

    This provision outlines a mixed approach to the evaluation of volunteering activity at the University of Birmingham. The evaluation seeks to develop a clear picture of the ‘Birmingham Volunteer’, including numbers of volunteers, and how volunteering contributes to skills development as well as being a philanthropic activity. Surveys, evaluation forms, face to face interviews, and regular focus groups combine to give evaluation at a number of levels.

  • External Training and Development Fund for Researcher Development

    Practice No. 960

    Last modified: 18/11/2009 12:13:53

    Institution: University of Manchester

    A fund for researchers within the Faculty to apply for, to cover costs of attending external events which develop their transferable skills.

  • Postgraduate Volunteering

    Practice No. 832

    Last modified: 30/07/2009 16:23:23

    Institution: University of Birmingham

    Volunteering is an often-overlooked route to skills development. Working with the Guild of Students, the Graduate School promotes a range of volunteering options to enable postgraduates to develop a range of invaluable skills while also helping the local (and wider) community.
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