Your Brighton Effect Welcome to Your Brighton Effect, where we look at how we raise and spend the funds that are very kindly donated by people like you, our alumni and other supporters.
UNIQUE EDUCATION PLACEMENTS This year the School of Education awarded its first alumni bursaries specifically to support students undertaking alternative placements. These experiences are unique across the sector and require each student to research an appropriate six-week placement in an alternative, or non-educational setting. Six bursaries of up to £500 are awarded each year. The placements are fundamental to challenging students’ assumptions about education and helping them to understand people from different backgrounds. Edwin Few taught at HM Prison Lewes in his third year of Primary Education. He said the experience “blew my prejudices out of the window and I really think I’ll be a better, more considerate and aware teacher as a result of this placement”. The alumni bursaries enable students to make the most of these opportunities and to ensure that finances will not be a barrier to them achieving their ambitions. Alexander Everett (pictured) was one of the first bursary recipients. He used the support to help fund his placement at the Grief Encounter Project, a charity which works closely with bereaved children and families. He said: “I was privileged to undertake a project focusing on children’s literature and the significant role of primary school teachers in supporting bereaved children. This led to the production of a booklet called Recommended Literature for Supporting Bereaved Children that will be featured on the charity’s website. Without your support, I would have missed out on what has been the most humbling and enlightening experience during my time at the University of Brighton.”
We would like to say a huge thank you on behalf of all the students and staff who have received support, and indeed from the university as well. Through your generosity we have made a difference to students, researchers, communities and society in ways that otherwise, would not have been possible.
Without your support, I would have missed out on what has been the most humbling and enlightening experience during my time at the University of Brighton.