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Case Studies To Enhance Graduate Employability: Competitive Sports, Athletes And Employability., Shelley Kinash, Linda Crane, Madelaine Judd, Cecily Knight, Matthew Mclean, Kirsty Mitchell, David Dowling
Case Studies To Enhance Graduate Employability: Competitive Sports, Athletes And Employability., Shelley Kinash, Linda Crane, Madelaine Judd, Cecily Knight, Matthew Mclean, Kirsty Mitchell, David Dowling
Linda Crane
This is one in a series of case studies to enhance graduate employability. The theme of this case study is: • Competitive sport, athletes and employability The aim of this case study is to present evidence that student participation in cocurricular activity, such as competitive sports, has the power to lift graduate employability. This case study addresses competitive sports, athletes and employability from two perspectives. First, it addresses sport organisations as graduate employers. As explained by one of the interviewees, there are ten sectors within the sports industry. Graduates can become employed in: 1) local government, 2) state government, 3) …
Time Flies: Take Some Risks And Make Life Count!, Connie I. Reimers-Hild
Time Flies: Take Some Risks And Make Life Count!, Connie I. Reimers-Hild
Connie I Reimers-Hild, PhD, CPC
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Teachers With Passion: Teaching In A Distressed Educational Environment, Professor Ben C Osisioma
Teachers With Passion: Teaching In A Distressed Educational Environment, Professor Ben C Osisioma
Prof Ben Chuka Osisioma
Passion is great enthusiasm, very strong emotion, a willingness to sacrifice. Men and women with passion outpace themselves as they go beyond mere talent, to leave their impact on society. Nigerian education needs teachers with passion – men and women with fire in their bones, impatient for lasting and enduring results. Such extra-ordinary pedagogues are people who will give themselves as ministers and missionaries in the temple of education.
What's Love Got To Do With It? Could It Lead Us To The "Great Colleagues" Triangle?, Jamie Comstock
What's Love Got To Do With It? Could It Lead Us To The "Great Colleagues" Triangle?, Jamie Comstock
Jayne Marie Comstock
I used this presentation to close a two day Provost Advisory Council (PAC) off-campus retreat and to inspire strong collegial relationships among this important work group, which I chair. As part of the retreat activities, each PAC member delivered an “Expert Moment” presentation that was to highlight their discipline-related expertise in a way that would be relevant to the group. Generally, my discipline scholarship focused on predicaments in personal and professional relationships. So, in keeping with my recent focus on collegiality on campus, I drew upon literature about close personal relationships to set up an active discussion about what I …