Showing posts with label practice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label practice. Show all posts

Monday, 27 October 2014

My Practice Week Experience

My name is Laura Cooper I am a second year HRM student at the University of Bedfordshire and as part of my course we have what are referred to as “practice weeks” these weeks are a great opportunity to learn and experience more about our chosen area of study.

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

What Practice Means for Students – and for me

When I first became a manager in the Business School, I could go whole weeks without missing teaching.  Now, largely because of our Practice Weeks I find myself pining for teaching.

Being head of a department doesn't allow for teaching, partly because of the size of the management task and partly because the flexibility needed doesn't mesh with the fixed nature of a timetable.  So teaching stopped when I took on my current role last year.  What I get to do instead, however, is go to the high points for students.  I am invited to see what is going on, to give profile and to present prizes.  High points can be events such as Vietnam’s Women’s Day for the Vietnamese Society but most often they are the Business School’s Practice Weeks.