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Welcome to Nottingham Trent University

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Environmental Commitment

• Sustainability is a major theme in our programmes e.g.– Architecture, Design and the Built

Environment – Animal, Rural and Environmental

Sciences – Art & Design

• EcoCampus - national pilot scheme to encourage universities to address key environmental issues launched at NTU.

• EcoCampus builds on the BEST Network, the business support programme for SMEs that improves competitiveness, sustainability & resource efficiency.

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Health & Safety Executive (HSE) Statistics for 2005/06:

• 1,969 people died of mesothelioma (2004), and thousands more from other occupational cancers and lung diseases.

• 212 people were killed at work, a rate of 0.7 per 100 000 workers.

• 30 million days were lost overall (1.3 days per worker), 24 million due to work-related ill health and 6 million due to workplace injury.

• Health and Safety at work is a real issue.

• Addressing health and safety and environmental sustainability are an intrinsic part of good management.

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Nottingham Trent University

• A major employer (2,500 employees)

• A major source of highly-employable graduates (25,000 students)

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NTU is in 1st place for graduate employability among all the universities of England and Wales

Nearly 98% of graduates are employed or engaged in further study or pursuing another ambition within 6 months of graduation

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Close to Employers• Links with 6,000

employers across the world including, for example:– Armani– BBC – BP– Christian Dior– Estée Lauder – Microsoft– Rolls Royce– Siemens– Toyota– Unilever

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Employers involved from beginning to end

• Need for course.

• Content of curriculum.

• Work placements.

• Work-based projects.

• Visiting professors from industry.

• Graduate Recruitment.

• Assessing graduate performance and adjusting curriculum.

GraduateRecruitment

How did ourgraduates perform?

Continuously review and strengthen the curriculum

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What matters to employers?

Source: i-graduate

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NTU graduate attributes

Courses are continuously reviewed to ensure that they develop the key skills that will mark out the ‘NTU graduate’.

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We expect both NTU graduates and postgraduates to have the following qualities and skills:

• Extensive knowledge of a profession or discipline(s), including relevant professional knowledge and skills, and informed respect for the principles, values and ethics of their chosen profession or discipline.

• Ability to express themselves with confidence, both orally and in writing.

• Good analytical, problem-solving, and numerical skills.

• Good visual presentational skills relevant to their profession or discipline.

• Proficiency in the use of all major technology and software relevant to their profession or discipline.

• Capacity for independent critical thought, rational inquiry and self-directed learning.

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We expect both NTU graduates and postgraduates to have the following qualities and skills:

• Proficiency in finding, evaluating, and managing information.

• Ability to plan work and to use time effectively.

• Ability and confidence to work effectively and collaboratively in teams.

• Leadership capacity, including a willingness to engage in constructive public discourse, and to accept social and civic responsibility.

• International awareness and openness to the world, based on understanding and appreciation of social and cultural diversity and respect for individual human rights and dignity.

• Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for lifelong learning.

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A World of Opportunities

In the top 3 universities in the UK for the number of year-long placements

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Work placements build student success

• Our research shows that students who undertake a work placement:

• Achieve a higher grade in their final examinations.

• Enter into higher paid employment.

• Make faster progress in their subsequent career.

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The secret of successful work placements

• Ensuring that there are benefits both to the student and to the employer.

• Choosing the right student for the right employer.

• E.g. “In 1990, I was running IT at Schlumberger Cambridge Research. You sent me a computing student on placement – you gave me a shortlist of one, and you got it right. That was the start of a 15 year succession of successes”.

• Recognising that workplacements are an opportunity for a much wider relationship with employers.

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Voluntary work also strengthens employability

• Students are encouraged to undertake voluntary work in local communities.

• This not only benefits society, the student gains skills and self-confidence that strengthen their employability.

• In this year’s Higher Education Active Community Fund (HEACF) Volunteering Awards. NTU won 2 prizes – including an Exceptional Winner.

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Successful Students• Simon Starling, BA (Hons)

Photography, won the Turner Prize.

• NTU students took 1st & 2nd prizes in the UK finals of the L'Oréal Brandstorm competition.

• MA/Postgraduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism top of National Council for the Training of Journalists examination league table.

• Chemistry students won the prestigious Passion for Science prize at the National Forensic Research and Teaching Conference.

• NTU students won 5 awards at the national New Designers event.

Winners of the UK finals of the L'Oréal Brandstorm (marketing

campaign) competition with their course leader

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Globally-Connected

Educating Students for Global Success

NTU First for Graduate Employability

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Our success comes from our partnerships with employers

Let us know how we can improve employability even further