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Bishop Grosseteste University Secondary NQT Conference 2014
Our first Annual Secondary NQT Conference will take place from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm on 5th February 2014. Our focus this year will be Early Professional Development. The conference is FREE to all BG NQTs. This will be a fantastic opportunity to reflect with your fellow students, university staff and guest speakers on what you have learned, to share how you have applied this, and look forward to your future development. There will be a choice of workshops on issues to support where you are now. The conference is a great opportunity to meet up with old friends and network with colleagues, and you will receive a BGU attendance certificate for your CPD file! To help ensure that the workshops address your current needs and interests, please indicate which of the following possible workshops would appeal to you. We welcome suggestions for additional topics, and will try to accommodate these if possible.Behaviour The flipped classroom at A level Gifted, more able and talented Career pathways Active learning Advice from a Recently Qualified Teacher Creative teaching and learning Sharing triumphs and disasters We will meet at 4:00 pm in Hardy TR1 for tea and cake, with a welcome at 4:30 from the Vice Chancellor, Revd Dr Peter Neil. We are informing your Head Teacher of this event, and hope you will be able to join us. Please reply to pde@bishopg.ac.uk by 10th January 2014. -
Awards for Heritage Sites Helping Visitors to Learn
They range from the grand (Chatsworth House) to the modest (Cottage Museum, Woodhall Spa), and from the famous (Titanic Belfast) to the obscure (the Museum of Hatting). But they are all award winners, and on Friday 4th December 52 heritage sites in the UK and Ireland will receive a Sandford Award in recognition of their education work. Museums, forts, galleries, houses and archives will be among those represented at the annual Sandford Awards for Heritage Education which this year take place at the London Transport Museum, which also won an award this year. The Sandford Awards are jointly managed by Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln and the Heritage Education Trust, and BGU’s Vice Chancellor, the Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil, will present the awards this year. The 2015 winners, which represent a cross-section of heritage sites from across the country, include The Collection in Lincoln, Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields, Black Country Living Museum in the West Midlands, Stockport Air Raid Shelters and the World Rugby Museum at Twickenham. Dr Tracy Borman, Sandford Co-ordinator at Bishop Grosseteste University, said: “The Sandford Awards pay tribute to education excellence and we look forward to honouring another outstanding crop of heritage sites next month. For the first time this year we will also award a special prize: the Frances Garnham Award for Innovation in Heritage Education. “We’re looking forward to another enjoyable ceremony and we’d like to congratulate all the sites who have been successful this year.” The awards ceremony begins at 11.30am on Friday 4th December and the Sandford Award Winners 2015 are: Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields Battle of Bannockburn Bingley Five Rise Locks Black Country Living Museum, Dudley Bruce Castle Museum, Haringey Burghley House, Stamford Canterbury Roman Museum Castell Henllys Iron Age Village Chatsworth House Clitheroe Castle The Collection, Lincoln Colne Valley Museum Cottage Museum, Woodhall Spa Danelaw Centre for Living History, York Discovery Museum & Tyne and Wear Archives Experience Barnsley Falmouth Art Gallery Foxton Locks, Market Harborough Framework Knitters Museum, Nottingham Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hall Place & Gardens, Bexley Harvington Hall, Kidderminster Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hatworks: The Museum of Hatting, Stockport The Higgins Bedford Holdenby House,Northampton Hopetoun House, Edinburgh The Judge's Lodging, Powys Keats House, London Kent Life, Maidstone Kerry County Museum Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Locomotion, County Durham London Transport Museum Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre National Maritime Museum Cornwall National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port Parliament Education Service Pollok House, Glasgow Queen Street Mill, Burnley Richmond Cultural Education Partnership Science Museum, London Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend Sheffield Cathedral Shipley Art Gallery South Shields Museum and Art Gallery Stockport Air Raid Shelters Tatton Park, Cheshire Titanic Belfast Wolves Museum, Wolverhampton The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere World Rugby Museum, Twickenham -
BGU Tops League Table for Employable Graduates
Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln has landed the second top spot among universities across the country for graduate employability, according to new figures published today (Thursday). Ninety-eight graduates out of every 100 who leave BGU following their first degree are in full-time employment or further study six months after graduating, according to the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey published by HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. BGU’s figure of 98.1% for 2013/14 is up from 96.5% the previous year and puts Bishop Grosseteste University as the second university in the UK league table (after the Royal Agricultural University) for the job prospects of its first degree graduates. The national average for all UK universities is 93.2% “This outstanding ranking is fantastic news for our graduates as it shows that they are ready and ideally prepared for the workplace when they leave BGU,” said the Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil, Vice Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University. “We work very hard to ensure that our degree courses are career-focused and most of them incorporate a professional work placement during the period of study. A good example is our new Team Entrepreneurship degree programme starting this autumn which will require students to set up their own business while on the course.” The latest DLHE figures can be found here. -
New Students Invited to ‘Share Hand of Friendship’
A welcoming ceremony at Lincoln Cathedral is to take place for the first time to formally introduce new students at Bishop Grosseteste University. The event on 8th October will give both undergraduate and postgraduate students the chance to meet university staff and each other. It is hoped that this matriculation ceremony will now be held annually, and over 1,000 new students have been invited. The university’s Vice Chancellor, the Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil, explained: “Matriculation is the term used to describe students' formal entry into the university. We hope this serves as a friendly welcome to all those who are starting their studies here this year and that students feel they are becoming a part of the wider university family.” The ceremony will be held in Lincoln Cathedral on Thursday 8th October at 3.30pm. For most students this will also be the place of their graduation, thanks to the university’s links with the Diocese of Lincoln. An academic procession will take place, with members of the university’s academic staff, council and officers of the university making a grand entrance. Distinguished county and civic guests will also be invited to attend. Students will also be given a badge to commemorate the event, a unique modern-day pilgrim badge specially created and designed by the Historic Lincoln Trust which also commemorates the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. Professor Neil added: “The Dean of Lincoln will welcome students to the cathedral and the matriculation roll will then be endorsed by the Registrar and Secretary on behalf of the university. “I will then invite students to 'share the hand of friendship' and shake hands with each other to admit them all formally as members of the university. Speeches will then be given by me, the President of BGU Students' Union and Lord Cormack, Chairman of the Historic Lincoln Trust.” Students will leave the cathedral to be greeted by the university samba band who will be performing following a public announcement by Lincoln’s Town Crier. -
New Partnership Brings Imps and BGU Closer Together
Bishop Grosseteste University and Lincoln City FC have welcomed a deal which strengthens the partnership between the two organisations. Today BGU and Lincoln City announce a new three-year deal which will see BGU continue as the club’s main sponsor and home shirt sponsor. But the strategic partnership between the university and the football club goes much deeper than that: the two organisations will be working ever more closely together on student engagement, teaching and matchday activities. BGU has an outstanding reputation for teacher training and the Imps’ new management team of brothers Danny and Nicky Cowley were both PE teachers in Essex before joining Lincoln full-time this summer. The Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil, Vice Chancellor of BGU, says the partnership will work on a number of levels. “Three years ago we were pleased to support the club and raise our profile by signing our first sponsorship agreement,” he said. “But now the relationship is more meaningful and, we hope, more beneficial to both sides. “We have already had discussions with Danny and Nicky about how our academic sport department can work together with the club. This year we will launch our new single honours BSc degree in Sport, Coaching and Physical Education and we are in the process of validating a new foundation degree in Football Coaching with Lincoln College. “Clearly there are synergies here that we can explore, and we are delighted that Lincoln City has appointed a dynamic and successful management team to move the team forward on the pitch.” BGU has already donated two laptops to Danny and Nicky to assist them in their day-to-day player performance analysis, and the university is looking forward to more student engagement from Lincoln City too. Lincoln City players will be contributing to sports courses at BGU from next semester and helping to coach the BGSU football team, while the BGU Lions cheerleading team will have an enhanced role at the club on matchdays. The increased engagement follows the first ever Cathedral Cup match between BGU and the University of Lincoln which was played at Sincil Bank, Lincoln City’s home ground, in February. Lincoln City manager Danny Cowley commented: “We are thoroughly looking forward to working in partnership with BGU going forward. Nicky and I both wholeheartedly believe in education. “BGU have fantastic facilities but more importantly young, intelligent and vibrant people whom we as a club must utilise either as supporters or working with the club. We can provide these young people with exposure to a professional football environment where they can practise and apply their knowledge and skills. “This can be a great opportunity for them to begin their career in a forward-thinking and people-centred environment. We as a club will certainly gain from their expertise. “All successful partnerships have an element of give and take. We really feel this is a relationship where both organisations can benefit from each other. Together we both will be stronger.” -
Top 3 in the UK
Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln is ranked third among UK universities for student employability, according to new figures published yesterday. 97.2% per cent of students who leave BGU with an undergraduate degree find work or are continuing to study six months following graduation. Only two other universities – Keele and Harper Adams – have a higher employability figure than Bishop Grosseteste University. The figures relate to full-time first degree graduates leaving in 2014/15 and the national average for all UK universities is 93.9%. The statistics appear in the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey published by HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. “Once again the DLHE survey highlights how well our graduates do when they enter the job market,” said the Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil, Vice Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University. “It’s very heartening to see BGU right near the top of the national ranking as it shows that we are doing everything we can to prepare for our students for the workplace when they leave us. “We work very hard to ensure that our degree courses are career-focused and most of them incorporate a professional work placement during the period of study. “One example is our new Business (Team Entrepreneurship) degree which requires students to set up their own business while studying with us.” The latest DLHE figures can be found by clicking here. -
Roger Mosey to Step Down as Chair of BGU Council
The broadcaster and former BBC Editorial Director Roger Mosey is to step down from his role as Chair of Bishop Grosseteste University‘s Council this summer. Mr Mosey, who is also Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, has come to the end of his three-year term and the university has begun the search for his successor. He will leave his post in July 2016. When he was appointed as Chair in June 2013 he was renewing old associations with the city of Lincoln: his BBC career began in 1980 when he joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire as a reporter. He went on to be Editor of the BBC’s flagship Radio 4 Today programme, Controller of BBC Radio 5 Live, Head of BBC Television News and the BBC’s Director of London 2012 responsible for the corporation’s coverage of the 2012 Games. “I have hugely enjoyed my time at BGU, and it has been a privilege to work with the university during a key period of its development,” said Mr Mosey. “We have successfully negotiated a number of major reviews, and the Vice Chancellor and his team have done a great job in laying the foundations for future success. I’m now going to focus more on my role in Cambridge, but I leave BGU with many fond memories.” The Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil, Vice Chancellor of BGU, commented: “The University Council has benefited hugely from the leadership provided by Roger. He brought a wealth of experience and insight to the role which proved invaluable during the last three years, which have involved considerable change in the institution and in the sector. He leaves us in a very positive position.” Recently the university has passed a rigorous review of teaching and learning by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), received glowing reports from the British Psychological Society when it approved BGU’s psychology courses and received a positive report from Ofsted following an inspection of its teacher training provision. The recruitment process to fill the vacant position of Chair of the Council has now begun and BGU expects to announce its new Chair in the summer. -
Bishop Grosseteste University Leading Scheme to Improve Access to Higher Education
Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln is attending the launch of the National Collaborative Outreach Programme in Birmingham today (Tuesday). Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Jayne Mitchell and Project Manager Naomi Prendergast are at the launch of the scheme, which aims to encourage more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to go to university. BGU is leading NCOP in Lincolnshire and is at the head of a consortium of Lincolnshire universities, colleges and schools, called LiNCHigher, which successfully bid for £2.5 million to roll out the programme across over the next four years. LiNCHigher will involve young people from across the county and deliver tried and tested approaches to raising aspirations and progression to HE as well as develop innovative ways to meet the specific challenges the county faces. These activities will build upon and provide a boost to existing outreach work taking place in schools and communities across England. A large-scale evaluation programme will measure the impact of the programme from the start, and the aim will be to build a powerful evidence base to ensure that investment is concentrated in activity that is shown to be the most effective. “We’re delighted that our bid to lead this exciting project has been successful,” said Professor Jayne Mitchell, Deputy Vice Chancellor at Bishop Grosseteste University. “We will be working together with colleges, universities and our network of schools to meet the education and skills needs in Lincolnshire. “The LiNCHigher project is designed to raise aspirations and support Lincolnshire’s young people to achieve their education goals. It will make a real difference to young people’s lives, and by investing in higher education we will help to improve the social and economic prosperity of the whole county.” In leading this programme BGU will build on its already successful track record and reputation for providing opportunities for students from under-represented groups to study and succeed in higher education. Over 84% of BGU students identify with one or more characteristic of those under-represented in HE; disabled, BME, mature, low-income background, low-participation neighbourhood and/or male. BGU students are well supported to achieve their qualifications and gain jobs. According to the latest Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey, published by HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency), 98.6% per cent of students who leave BGU with an undergraduate degree find work or are continuing to study six months following graduation. This places BGU as the highest ranked public university in England for student employability. The LiNCHigher project will run from 2016/17 to 2019/20. BGU’s consortium partners are the Bishop Burton College, Boston College, the College of West Anglia, Grantham College, Grimsby Institute, Lincoln College, Lincoln University Technical College, New College Stamford and University of Lincoln. -
New Students attend Matriculation at BGU
Students were formally welcomed to Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) in Lincoln at a Matriculation Ceremony on Monday 9 October at Lincoln Cathedral. The welcoming ceremony was established two years ago and has now become an annual event. The ceremony gives both undergraduate and postgraduate students the chance to meet University staff and each other. All newly enrolled students were invited. The University’s Vice Chancellor, the Reverend Canon Professor Peter Neil, explained: “Matriculation is the term used to describe students’ formal entry into the university. We hope this ceremony will again serve as a friendly welcome to all those who are starting their studies here this year and that students feel they are becoming a part of the wider university family.” The ceremony was held in Lincoln Cathedral on Monday 9 October at 3.30pm. For most students this will also be the place of their graduation, thanks to the University’s links with the Diocese of Lincoln. An academic procession took place, including members of BGU’s academic staff, University Council and officers of the University making a grand entrance. Distinguished county and civic guests were also invited to attend. Professor Neil added: “The Precentor of Lincoln will welcome students to the cathedral and the pre-signed Matricula roll will then be endorsed by the Registrar on behalf of the University. “I will then invite students to ‘share the hand of friendship’ and shake hands with each other to admit them all formally as members of the University. “Speeches will then be given by me, the President of BGU Students’ Union and other members of the University staff." -
BGU Commits to Greater Public Engagement
To demonstrate its commitment to engaging with the wider community, Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln has joined the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCPPE) and signed up to its manifesto. The move is part of BGU’s wider stakeholder engagement work which forms an important part of the university’s five-year strategy. The term ‘public engagement’ describes the many ways in which higher education, learning experiences and research can be shared with the general public. The NCPPE says public engagement “is by definition a two-way process, involving interaction and listening, with the goal of generating mutual benefit.” The Reverend Canon Prof Peter Neil, Vice Chancellor of BGU, commented: “I am very pleased that Bishop Grosseteste University has now signed up to the NCCPE’s Manifesto for Public Engagement. “This is a reflection of our long-term public engagement strategy and of our continuing dedication to our various communities. I am looking forward to encouraging further public engagement efforts by the university and all its members.” BGU has been increasing its investment in staff volunteering, which builds on the successes of its existing student volunteering scheme. High levels of student volunteering have helped BGU to establish itself amongst the top three universities for employability in the whole of UK, as seen from the latest Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey published by HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. BGU also offers public lectures on campus and innovative skills development courses ranging from journalism to paediatric first aid and from writing skills courses to Makaton. The university’s enterprise incubation centre, BG Futures, plays an important role in engaging with the business community and the campus hosts regular national and international conferences.
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