Working or volunteering this summer? Get it accredited!
April 29, 2014
Do have a part-time job, vacation job or volunteering position for this summer? If so, why not get it accredited and join more than 2,500 students who are already taking part in the Nottingham Advantage Award? Our popular Part-time Jobs, Vacation Jobs and Volunteering module runs over the summer holiday period and consists of two …
Guest Blog: Malena Wong tells us about her experiences on the Save the Children scheme
April 15, 2014
My First Fundraising Project As a student taking an English degree, I get asked a lot of questions about my future career. Many times, people have asked me, ‘so, you want to be a teacher?’ The unbelievable number of times I have felt embarrassed by questions like this prompted me to explore my career options. …
Guest Blog: Caroline Chan tells us about her experiences of the Career Skills in Politics module
April 3, 2014
We caught up with Caroline Chan, a second year politics and economics student currently enrolled on the Nottingham Advantage Award. She told us all about her experiences of the Career Skills in Politics module and explained how it helped her to develop her skills and interview technique. Over to Caroline: “I decided to enrol onto …
Snapshot: The Nottingham Advantage Award in Photographs
March 17, 2014
If you’ve ever wondered what sort of fun activities you could get up to as part of the Nottingham Advantage Award, then this blog post is a must read! This week we are featuring some of our latest module pictures so that you can see what you can take part in next year. Whether you …
Save the Children module – Charity and business development for students
December 5, 2013
Save the Children Enterprise Scheme XX1N53 is just one of our enterprise, events and project management modules offered through the Nottingham Advantage Award. The Save the Children Student Enterprise Scheme provides students with a unique insight into Save the Children’s work and the opportunity to get involved through campaigning, business development and organising and publicising …
The Award cares about sustainability
November 27, 2013
The Nottingham Advantage Award is constantly evolving and adding many new exciting modules and opportunities for students to take “advantage” of to increase their employability and develop their career skills. The Environmental Sustainability Project Management module is one such module that is up and running at the moment. Helen Rutherford, the module convenor, shares a …
Business plan competition heats up February with the Student Venture Challenge
October 9, 2013
In last week’s blog we shared how you can get involved in the Award and the different categories of modules we have to offer. This week, we want to highlight one module in particular. The Student Venture Challenge – Developing a Business Idea XX1N11 module is a great opportunity for undergraduate students who have an …
Find your Advantage from more than 150 modules
October 3, 2013
If you haven’t read our welcome blog, we would like to welcome you again to the 2013/2014 academic year. By now you may have seen the Award promoted on campus at various fairs or presentations. We have been running introductory and drop-in sessions where you can ask questions about how you can tailor the Award …
A welcome message from the new Director of the Careers and Employability Service
September 25, 2013
By Nalayini Thambar, Director, Careers and Employability Service Welcome to the first Nottingham Advantage Award blog post for 2013/2014 academic year. I am pleased that my colleagues in the Award team asked me to write this, but now wish that I had a bit more (indeed, any) experience in writing posts. Still, if you don’t …
Designing a social enterprise….
December 20, 2012
This year the Advantage Award introduced an exciting new module. Brought to you jointly by PwC and Teach First, the module invited students to exercise their creativity by designing and project managing their own Social Enterprise. As part of the module, students were tasked with conducting research in the Nottingham community to identify social issues …
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