Winners announced, Excellence in Employability Award 2011:

We had great difficulty in choosing one outright winner from all the excellent entries, so this year the prize is shared between two initiatives:

Jackie Campbell, Howard Gould, Sanela Lazarevski and Julian Old 

The first award goes to a team who have worked hard this year to encourage and support more students to undertake placements. They have conducted research with employers staff and students looking at the barriers they experience in taking up placements and have thought of different opportunities for students, aware that many can't or won't take the traditional sandwich placement year. Consequently the number of placements already secured this year has increased  by 25% on last year.

Nick Halafihi

The second 'half' goes to a member of staff who views student centredness as critical to all aspects of higher education and who has embedded employability throughout the Sport Business Management course he leads, creating an employability pathway which incorporates work placement opportunities and recognises the activities and learning students undertake outside of the course as well as on course.

Excellence in Employability 2010, results

We had a range of interesting and innovative entries to our 2010 Excellence in Employability Awards.  See the 2010 Archive to the right for brief descriptions of the winning entry and those who were highly commended.  Entries were from teams and individuals and came from all faculties and from teaching and non teaching areas.