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Business Graduate Receives Award for HR Studies Photo courtesy of Tempest Photography
University Students Design Interactive Computer Game for Elgar Birthplace Museum
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business graduate from the University of Worcester has been presented with a top prize for her work in human resources.
Charlotte Walker, who graduated last year with a 2:1 BA (Hons) Business, Management and Human Resource Management (HRM), was awarded the EEF Prize for the best HR student.
Computer gaming students at the University of Worcester are helping to design a new interactive game for a City museum. Students on the Computer Games Design and Development BSc Hons course have been working on a project to bring the Elgar Birthplace Museum to a new group of visitors. Dr Carlo Fabricatore, Senior Lecturer in Computer Games, is coordinating a partnership between the Museum and the Worcester Business School, aimed at encouraging students to engage in live projects using gaming for social benefit. “The Museum is looking to reach out to a new audience, young people who perhaps would not normally consider visiting,” he said. “Our students are looking at ways to do this through computer gaming. “It’s fantastic for our students to have the chance to work on a live project with such relevant aims and to have to fulfil the requirements of a real client.” Representatives from the Elgar Birthplace Museum, which is located three miles west of Worcester in Lower Broadheath, visited students at the University to see the various projects in progress and give their comments. Cathy Sloan, Museum Director, said: “This would be a fantastic resource for the Museum. It’s great to be working in collaboration with the University and its students on this project.”
Twenty-one-year-old Charlotte, from Redditch, who is currently taking an MSc in Management and Human Resources, said: “I was very pleased when I found out that I had won the award, especially as Human Resources has always been an area that I have enjoyed learning about and a career I would like to progress into. Once I have finished my MSc course I aim to get my CIPD qualification.” The award was presented by Richard Halstead, Midlands Regional Director for EEF, ‘the manufacturers’ organisation’, which represents 6,000 employers across the UK. “We are delighted to once again support the University of Worcester in its activities to ensure the best HR and IR [Industrial Relations] training is provided to future practitioners,” he said. The award is given by staff nomination for the best grade performance across two final year (Level 6) HRM specialist modules and HRM-specific Independent Study. Charlotte received £100 in vouchers and a day at EEF.
Unleash Your Inner Gypsy! University of Worcester and Shindig present:
New Budapest Café Orchestra Thursday 2 February – 7.30pm in the Conference Centre – St John’s Campus The New Budapest Café Orchestra plays powerful, driving folk-based music from Eastern Europe inspired by the music of European gypsies. The music evokes vivid images of fiddle maestros, Budapest café life and gypsy campfires. There’s an impassioned yet tender mixture of blistering czardas (think Cossack music), Russian and Ukranian folk songs, grief stricken ballads, and rollicking dances from Romania and Bulgaria as well as their own electrifying compositions. Good enough to make you book a holiday to Budapest. Tickets available from the University’s Finance Office and St John’s Public Library (01905 822722) Tickets are £8 or £6 Concessions (under 14, OAP, Students) Family £24 (2 adults and 2 children)
newsandviews@worc.ac.uk / JANUARY 2012 / 11