Following the recent call for projects involving Student Academic Partnerships, there were two ideas fielded by students and supported by Rhonda Hammond-Sharlot and Christine Harrison. The students had just 5 days to develop their ideas, and create a pitch to a dragons den type of competition. Both projects have succeeded and the students involved will be paid £1200 for 80 hours work on their projects.

The first idea came from two level 5 students, Mara Alayon and Anna Kuckova, who had noticed a gap in the careers provision. Whilst there is a whole range of generic careers help, there is very little Law specialist. They are going to create an on-line tool for use by Law Students to enable them to identify appropriate steps at every stage of their studies to improve their employability, with links to resources. This will range from creating a strong CV to opportunities for Work Experiences and Mini Pupillages.
 

The second idea came from Luybitsa Blazhevska who looked at the need to develop a really good BlackBoard Site for the forthcoming Legal Apprenticeships, and added to that the idea of a Peer Mentor who is fill time at the Law School, and can link with the off site learners and support them.

 Both projects need to be completed by June 2017, so the pressure continues, but well done to the three students who have done so well, and achieved this. Mara Alayon, Anna Kuckova and Luybitsa Blazhevska have done the Law School proud.

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