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6 steps to the perfect teaching assistant CV

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Are you looking for a teaching assistant role? The most crucial step to landing your next job is perfecting your CV. In order to do this, you need to create an effective structure for your CV and pack it with your relevant skills, experiences and attributes. The guide below will break down the CV writing…>

Spring Clean Your CV For Job Hunt Success

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Just like spring cleaning your home highlights how much junk you’ve accumulated, so does spring cleaning your CV. If you haven’t updated it in a while, it could be full of inaccurate, out of date and even unhelpful information. Whether you made some edits a few months ago, or haven’t looked at it for years,…>

The Role of the Practitioner – Lecturer within Arts and Media

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Capacity Building in Higher Education Arts and Media (CBHE) CBHE continues to attract part-time lecturers from a wide range of creative, professional and academic fields. As practitioners, their contribution helps to legitimise the teaching of their specialist subjects from a professional perspective and also helps support the ongoing move to improve the perception of Higher Education…>

Building resilience as an employee | Webinar Registration Page

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Webinar Registration Page | 11th September 12:30 – 1:15 pm BST | MS Teams In a turbulent job market, resilience has become critical. It’s also become a ‘trait’ that recruiters and hiring managers are increasingly asking for. jobs.ac.uk have teamed up with Dr Suzanne Ross to bring you a webinar on ‘Building Resilience as an…>

CV tips for jobs in Further Education

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Writing a CV can be a time consuming and challenging process. A carefully written CV can help you receive interview invitations and a brilliant job. However, even a small spelling mistake on your CV may lead to your application being ignored. Find key tips to help those working in the Further Education (FE) sector improve…>

Further Education Assessor Job Profile

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In recent years the government has committed to getting young people into the workplace through vocational training such as apprenticeships, NVQs and QCF qualifications. This has increased the need for assessors with both occupational competence in the subject and the teaching skills to encourage and mentor learners through their training programme. Vocational assessors are now…>

Further Education Lecturer Job Profile

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Duties and responsibilities As a lecturer, your duties could include: Teaching groups of students in a lecture, seminar or classroom setting Writing lesson plans and schemes of work Continual assessment and monitoring of student’s work Preparing resources and materials for sessions Record keeping and other administration Providing pastoral support for your students via one to…>

Further Education Head of Department Job Profile

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Working as a head of department within the further education sector can be both challenging and rewarding in equal measure. As an academic leader you would guide the department’s staff and curriculum whilst also managing the budget to ensure that your department functions to the best of its abilities. You would need extensive experience as…>

A Practical Guide to Apprenticeships

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Do you want to get started with an apprenticeship? Read this practical guide on apprenticeships by jobs.ac.uk to help you get started. Apprenticeships make up a considerable part of the Further Education sector, and this is set to increase, in the academic year 2022/23 over 337,100 students started an apprenticeship in England. Previously seen as…>