The guidance and recruitment team are looking for enthusiastic level 3 or 4 students to be a part of our Student Ambassador scheme. The Student Ambassador scheme is primarily aimed at University students who share a passion for the University and feel able to share their knowledge with prospective students, parents and teachers.

Student ambassadors can raise the profile of a course among applicants and aid recruitment. Feedback from Open days has suggested that student ambassadors have been instrumental in applicants’ decisions to apply to the University of Gloucestershire.

Not only does the scheme help with applicants’ decision making but provides the student ambassadors with transferable skills that may compliment their studies.

Our student ambassadors are available for members of staff to book to help with events across the university that are deemed to promote the University of Gloucestershire. Most recently some of the student ambassadors participated in the University’s 10 year anniversary celebration and featured in the local Echo newspaper.

We would strongly advise that if you would like to ensure that your course is well represented by the scheme you should either pass this information to any lecture groups or students who you feel would benefit from becoming a student ambassador or contact the guidance and recruitment team who would be pleased to come and talk to a cohort at the beginning or end of one of your lectures for 5 to 10 minutes.

The closing date for applications is Thursday 9^th February 2012.

For more information please contact Vikki on by calling 01242 714833.

We are working with a client (Active Gloucestershire), making some films for their website. They also want some web design work. The University of Gloucester is looking for skilled graduates or 3rd year students who would be willing to get paid as a consultant for the web development work for now and in the future.

Contact Lex Beckett (project manager) for more information.

Skillset is the Creative Industries’ Sector Skills Council (SSC) which comprises TV, film, radio, interactive media, animation, computer games, facilities, photo imaging, publishing, advertising and fashion and textiles.

Below is a selection of examples that showcase the talents of the University of Gloucestershire students:

Level 4 – Web Sites

Student Life Web Site 1	Student Life Web Site 2
Student Life Web Site 3	Student Life Web Site 4
Student Life Web Site 5

Level 5 – Module Teaching Material + Web Sites

MU210 teaching material	Lower Severn Community Flood Information Network

Level 6 – Team Projects + Graduate ePortfolios

Team Bao – Treasure Hunter	Shoo Choo
Visualisation Showcase	ePortfolio – Tamara Gabriel – TAGD:1 Media
ePortfolio – Sophie Cornell	ePortfolio – David Pearson

With the release of Apple’s iOS5, the official announcement of Android 4: Ice cream Sandwich, and Nokia unveiling their first Windows Phone Smartphones, this is a very exciting time in the world of Mobile Development.

On the 29th and 30th November developers and company officials will be attending the AppsWorld 2011 event at Olympia.

It’s a free-to-attend exhibition, so drop by for the chance to discuss & debate the current industry conditions and the predictions for their future.

“Computer sciences – ranked 42nd out of 107 overall (up 38 places from last year)”

• Overall, ranked 4th of post-92 institutions & 1st of competitors (see competitors below).
• Ranked 5th of post-92 institutions & 2nd of competitors for teaching excellence, higher than Sheffield, Liverpool, Imperial College London, Birmingham, Warwick, Nottingham, Manchester, Leeds, Queen’s Belfast, King’s College London and Edinburgh.
• Ranked 9th of post-92 institutions & 2nd of competitors for graduate jobs, higher than Liverpool and Cardiff.
• Ranked 11th of post-92 institutions & 5th of competitors for unemployment, higher than Bristol and Cardiff.
• Ranked 9th of post-92 institutions & 3rd of competitors for dropout rate, higher than Leeds, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow and Queen’s Belfast.

Competitor institutions, as defined using UCAS UoG applicants who also applied to another UK institution are: Bath Spa, Bournemouth, Brighton, Nottingham Trent, Oxford Brookes, Plymouth, Portsmouth, UWE, UWIC & Worcester.

BCS Events take place every month at the University of Gloucestershire covering a variety topics.

Click the image below to download your electronic portable copy and find out more about the topics to be discussed.

This month’s talk: The Internet Threat Environment – who wants to infect your computer and why.



Changing the Game – 17th November, Birmingham Science Park

For those interested in gaming, Andrew Goff from Interactive Opportunities Ltd is promoting an event in Birmingham.

The day will have the following themes throughout speaker presentations:

1) Using Gaming Technology innovatively to engage and inspire learner

1. Using students own devices

2. Content and delivery

3. Innovative and free resources

2) Using Games Based Learning to have impact

1. Reluctant readers

2. Bringing hard concepts to life

3) Skills from creating games

1. Storytelling and plot development in English

2. Creative Thinking

3. Model Development for product design

4. Programming and Logic

Link to agenda • Link to registration

This is a good opportunity to add experience to your CV!

The Careers and Employability team would like to offer you the chance to ‘Get to work’ on

• Your CV and applications

• Your presentation skills

• ‘Who ate my sandwich’ – also known as professional behaviour at work!

We are running a series of workshops on these topics this term:

Thursday November 24th @ Oxstalls – Presentation skills

Wednesday 30th  November @ Park - Professional behaviour at work

Wednesday 1st December @ FCH – CVs and applications

Sign up now to secure your place.

Check out this new feature of Photoshop CS6 due out mid-2012!

For more sneak-peaks – check Peter Elst blog post.

The University of Gloucestershire does it part in donating their old equipment for causes such as below.

If you have any old equipment that’s lying around and you have no need for it, why not follow us by giving it away?

Click the flyers below to find out more.