Ensuring employability Employability is about more than just getting a job – we believe in helping our students gain the necessary experience for a future career, along with the skills to identify opportunities and take advantage of them. Our Graduate Passport helps students plan their involvement and gather evidence of their achievements. In an increasingly competitive global market, employers are looking for more than the technical skills and knowledge of a degree discipline. Whatever subject you study, employers are looking for enterprising individuals who can make ideas happen. We want to help you increase innovation, creativity and productivity in the UK and global marketplace. At Southampton, employers contribute to the curriculum in a variety of ways, such as through School industrial advisory boards and programme review panels, ensuring that the programme content is relevant and up-to-date, and that students are well positioned for their future careers. Many of the programmes involve representatives from industry in the delivery of the curriculum. Examples include providing technical lectures, industry case studies, project work to solve a real-life problem, and supporting field trips. These all help to enhance and enrich the programme content, and will help you to test your knowledge and experience in an applied way. The programme-specific pages of this prospectus provide you with a list of the types of careers that our graduates have entered. You will also find more details about our relationships with industry on the websites of many of our Academic Schools and at Career Destinations within the Student Services Centre.
advantage of the opportunity to get involved in placements in local schools and colleges through the Student Associate Scheme and the Undergraduate Ambassador Scheme. Through our Community Volunteering Scheme, we can arrange placements in local schools, clubs, sports centres and other voluntary organisations. We will give you the training you need, free of charge, so all you need to provide is your enthusiasm and your time. Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme (DTUS) Southampton is one of only six UK universities to accept students sponsored by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) on the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme (DTUS). The DTUS offers scholarships to students wishing to pursue a technical, engineering or scientific career in one of the three armed services or the MOD civil service. More than 150 students at the University are now sponsored by the DTUS. Thunderer Squadron is part of the DTUS and is the military support unit for undergraduate engineering students who have committed to a career as an engineer/technical officer in the armed forces or civil service. Most Thunderers have passed the relevant officer selection board for their chosen service before starting at Southampton. However, it is possible to apply while at the University if you are completing a relevant degree and are successful at officer selection.
In return for their commitment, individuals receive an annual tax-free bursary, currently ÂŁ4,000, as well as training pay and a reserve forces bounty of approximately ÂŁ1,500. In addition, the scheme provides a valuable insight into military life during the semester break periods and numerous opportunities to pursue Make a difference free or heavily subsidised sporting and adventure training activities throughout the year. At Southampton you will have the opportunity to develop your career opportunities and skills by meeting www.thunderersquadron.mod.uk employers, undertaking volunteering activities, getting involved in student enterprise societies, taking up work placements and much more. Many of our students take
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