All Students at ‘University Centre

Blackburn College’…

…Capture some essential ‘Employability skills’

Through our Community Challenge (externally funded)

Research Project

• There are about 1.2 million undergraduate students currently studying in the UK (HESA)

• In 2015, in excess of 300,000 students will graduate from University– What’s going to make you stand out from

the crowd?

• We can help …Watch the following clip

• There are additional advantages for staff to encourage students to get involved with Community Challenge

• We can provide ready-made assignments for you– Students can use their Community

Challenge activities to contribute towards a variety of modules

• See some of the following examples…

‘Community challenge’ assignments have already been written (and are compatible with existing modules):

The project seeks to offer an alternative mode of assessment for virtually any UCBC module.

SS11005 Research Skills (FdA Criminology)

SS16508 Research Methods (FdA Hosptality Management/FdA Hospitality Management/Events Management)

SS11013 The Reflective Practitioner (FdA Criminology)

SD 2201 Research Project (FdA Health & Personal Training, FdA Sports Coaching & FdA Sports Development)

SS26507 Research Project (FdA Hosptality Management/FdA Hospitality Management/Events Management)

BS21116 Research Project (FdSc Computing: Business Information Systems; Networking and Forensics; Software Development)

SS21112 Research Project (FdA Criminology)

SS21111 Work Based Learning (FdA Criminology)

SS30002 Evaluative Methods in Criminology (BA Criminology)