January 2019 Careers Bulletin

JANUARY 2019

Higher Education and Careers Bulletin Contents: Apprenticeships as Infrastructure Technician offered with Google Where do student fees really go?

NHS – find your health career SCAS – working for the Ambulance Service How to become a plastic surgeon British Film Institute residential courses 2019

Mrs Penny Chidgey

Technical skills are evolving Higher/Degree Apprenticeships Heathrow Jobs & Careers Fair Higher Education and Careers Adviser Careers@whs.bucks.sch.uk

Google are now recruiting – Infrastructure Technician Apprentices Google are offering a 15 month apprenticeship with initial training starting in October 2019. After completion you will rotate between being onsite at Google and training at Just IT. You will have the opportunity to work alongside a team of ‘Googlers’ (people working at Google!) and you will also get exposure to different roles across the company, including IT support and audio-visual engineering and picking up new technical skills such as: troubleshooting; data gathering and analysis; automating repetitive tasks; remote infrastructure and fleet management, IT security and policies and other industry practices. For more information go to: https://www.justit.co.uk/become-an-apprentice/search-vacancies-2/

Student fees where do they really go?

Research by the Higher Education Policy Institute shows that 45% of UK tuition fee income is typically spent on teaching and that as students question value for money, they would like more information on how their fees are spent. To download the full report, go to: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Following-the-pound.pdf Early Careers Earnings - https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/13731

NHS – find your health career - https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/career-tools SCAS – working for the Ambulance Service - https://www.scasjobs.co.uk/ How to become a plastic surgeon - BAPRAS (The British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons) provides information and advice about routes into this niche but expanding and lucrative medical specialization. For more information, go to: http://www.bapras.org.uk/professionals/training-and-education/careers-in-plastic-surgery

British Film Institute residential courses 2019 - We welcome applications from talented young filmmakers from all backgrounds. The Course Fee ranges from £0 to £210 for the Specialist Residential courses, which includes your accommodation and food for the duration of the residential. Depending on your financial circumstances we can subsidise some/or all of the Course Fee - our bursary scheme can if you have the talent we will make sure you can attend. For more information, go to: https://www.bfi.org.uk/education-research/bfi-film-academy/bfi-film-academyspecialist-residential-programme

Tech Skills are Evolving Quickly - Deloitte found that only 12% of executives think graduates have enough digital skills – this was down 20% from last year, demonstrating one of the key factors of the digital skills gap. The skills that young people are developing can often be outdated by the time they enter the job market, particularly on technical courses, for example; on a computer science course, the syllabus cannot keep up with the pace at which industry is developing. With a minimal focus on practical experience in many of the degree subjects, graduates are finding their degrees aren’t giving them the employability they were promised. What can you do? Ensure you check the content of Computing/Computer Science degrees to ensure it has some focus on practical experience. One way to do this is to consider courses where the universities offer a sandwich or placement year. Follow link to Deloitte Digital competencies: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ch/Documents/innovation/ch-en-innovationautomation-competencies.pdf

Higher/Degree Apprenticeships - A Degree Apprenticeship is an education route launched by the Government which brings together the best of higher and vocational training. The Higher Apprenticeship incorporates a work-based learning programme and leads to qualifications at Level 4 and above, which are equivalent to a higher education certificate, diploma or foundation degree.

Level 6 is equivalent to a bachelor degree and Level 7 is equivalent to a master’s degree. ‘Not going to Uni’ website (link below) has information about the different apprenticeships available: https://www.notgoingtouni.co.uk/apprenticeships-223/filter/subcats/degree-apprenticeships-4457

Heathrow Jobs and Careers Fair - The 12th annual Heathrow Jobs & Careers Fair will be taking place on Thursday 28 February 2019 at Sofitel Heathrow, Terminal 5. Register here for the opportunity to meet with over 80 airport-based employers, educational institutions and volunteering organisations with active opportunities. https://your.heathrow.com/heathrow-jobs-and-careers-fair/