Let’s Celebrate!
March 5, 2015
The Celebration Event, hosted every year, welcomes students who have passed all three modules (30 credits) required to complete the Award. Our Celebration Event honours students’ achievements and recognises their personal and professional development through the Award. RSVP here, until Friday 22 May 2015, for students who have completed the Award! …
Stand out from the crowd: Get involved in the Advantage Award!
February 27, 2015
The results are in! With spring term well under way, we look back on what our Class of 2014 graduates think about their Advantage Award. Every student has a mixture of reasons why they get involved in the Award. Here are some snippets from this year’s alumni survey for their reasons for taking part. Do …
Your achievements have the potential to go global with the Advantage Award!
February 19, 2015
With this year’s prize applications deadline approaching, we hear from last year’s winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Global Graduate Award (which is co-supported by GSK this year), Polina Medvedeva, about her experiences completing the Award. “I completed my Award in June 2014, receiving the Award certificate. This was a very exciting time for me; this was when …
Finding the time for your future: How to do the Nottingham Advantage Award with a busy schedule
December 9, 2014
Did you know that fitting the Nottingham Advantage Award in with your studies is much easier than it sounds? The amount of time that you need to spend on an Award module can sound daunting, but actually most of our modules are spaced out over a semester or even a year. We interviewed Shareen Akhtar, …
Thinking about a career in the third sector, marketing or event management?
November 21, 2014
This spring, the Nottingham Advantage Award will be teaming up with Save the Children to deliver a hands-on module that gives students direct experience in third sector marketing, fundraising and event management. We interviewed Jane Piggott from Save the Children to find out about what students can expect from the module. Here’s what she had …
Nourish your skills with the Communicating Nutrition Project
November 4, 2014
Calling all nutrition students! We have a module just for you! This week we shine the spotlight on to Communication Nutrition, a project based at Sutton Bonington. Not only does this project give you direct experience at making dietary recommendations to individuals within the community, but it also helps you to gain lots of transferable …
Your University needs you! Become an agent of change and make a difference
October 28, 2014
Do you want to gain skills in project management and communication? Do you see yourself as a change maker? Yes? Well we have the module for you! Students as Change Agents is a new 10-credit module which will give you a unique opportunity to collaborate with staff and fellow students to make very real changes …
How to discover your team personality
October 20, 2014
The chances are you’ve been a in a team before and that you have developed some excellent transferable skills that you can talk about at an interview. But employers increasingly want to know what kind of persona you usually adopt in a group context and what kind of team role suits you the best. Have …
Become a sports hero through the Any-buddy Scheme
October 6, 2014
This week we shine the spotlight on the small but perfectly formed Any-Buddy Scheme which has been running at The University of Nottingham for just over four years now. The scheme aims to pair up disabled and non-disabled students with sports buddies who have similar interests to them. We asked the convenor of the scheme, …
Why should you study a language as part of the Nottingham Advantage Award?
September 19, 2014
If you’re unable to study a language as part of your main university degree, taking an evening language class as part of the Nottingham Advantage Award could be just what you need! You can gain 10 Award credits for your participation in a 20-week long class and benefit from the following advantages: Recognition for taking …
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