Placement students enhance confidence & collegiality among peers
September 29, 2016
Reports on placement outcomes tend to focus on what one side of the arrangement – the student or the placement host – get out of the process, but in reality the benefits are highly reciprocal. This is nicely illustrated by a recent Postgraduate Placements Nottingham scheme in which Postgraduate Research Students (PGRs) worked with Elizabeth …
A Thousand Year Old Market Goes Online
September 22, 2016
This week we interview Jimiama, a postgraduate student, and Hugh Brown, CEO of the historical Melton Mowbray Market, about their experiences of working together through the University of Nottingham’s Postgraduate Placements scheme. Melton Mowbray Market is the largest town centre livestock market in the country and its existence predates the Domesday Book. The main market …
Delivering a fresh, unbiased business project review
September 8, 2016
Dr Mark Tock, MBA, Operations Director at UNIP (University of Nottingham Innovation Park) talks about his experience of offering a placement through PPN. What has having postgraduate placement students uniquely offered your organisation? Bringing a postgraduate into UNIP Management Ltd, albeit for a short period, afforded our business a fresh and unbiased review of a …
Communicating the power of makeup
September 6, 2016
Trishna Daswaney, Director of Kohl Kreatives, talks about her experience of hosting Diana, a postgraduate placement student. Kohl Kreatives is a new enterprise, endorsed by the University of Nottingham, which is unique in producing a fabulous range of makeup brushes and matte liquid lipsticks as a charitable free service that benefits the transgender and cancer communities. As …
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