26.11.2021

Greetings from the CONNECT Team, we hope you have had a productive week.

This week is all about:

CONNECT Health Check! “How are you getting on?”

CONNECT Bite-Size CPD Session (11/01/2022)
Health Check Consultancy Sessions

Changing Education Podcast

Episode 6 – Alternative Provision!
Episode 7 – Careers Strategy and Careers Fairs!

CONNECT Refresher Webinar – missed this week’s webinars?

CONNECT® “New Tech” – Industry Sectors and Careers Specific Roles

CONNECT Education & Training – please sign up below.

Changing Education Showcase Event – Putting real work experience back in the curriculum.
CONNECT® “New Tech” – Careers Submissions.

Don’t forget to access our Website, Linkedin page, and YouTube channel for all the up-to-date content and resources.

CONNECT Health Check!

“How are you getting on?”

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

We are struggling to implement our work placement and careers programmes post covid-19? Agree / Disagree
Our employer engagement strategy is difficult to track? Agree / Disagree
We don’t advertise placement opportunities to students? Agree / Disagree
Our Health & Safety Risk Management is taking too much time? Agree / Disagree
It’s difficult to implement student self-assessment? Agree / Disagree
We struggle to track all placement attendance? Agree / Disagree
We struggle to manage & track employer appraisals? Agree / Disagree
We struggle to manage & track student feedback? Agree / Disagree
We are still using spreadsheets for reporting? Agree / Disagree
It’s difficult to log careers and work-related learning activities? Agree / Disagree
I don’t understand all the functionality available to us to manage our programmes? Agree / Disagree

As a Changing Education CONNECT client your answers should have been Disagree, if you answered Agree, fear not we are here to help!

First, sign up for our CONNECT Bite-Size CPD Session (11/01/2022) which will help accelerate the effectiveness of your work placement and careers programmes.
Sign-up here.

In the new year and once you have attended the CPD event we will be offering all our clients a Health Check Consultancy Session which you can be used to ensure:

CONNECT has been implemented correctly.
Staff fully understand all functionality available to them to complete their role effectively.
As part of an external quality assurance audit to ensure your programmes are high quality and compliant with Ofsted / Gatsby Agenda.

Find out more here.

Podcast Episode 6 – Alternative Provision, Does it work? (November 17th, 2021)

On today’s show Company Directors and Co-Founders, Matthew Hodgkinson and Stephen Hackney turn their attention to the subject of Alternative Provision. They dissect Alternative Provision, its purpose, how it benefits the students on the programme, and the role schools play in supporting young people on alternative provisions.

Click this link to listen to the podcast.

Podcast Episode 7 – Careers Strategy & Careers Fairs (November 24th, 2021)

Click this link to listen to the podcast.

Want to hear more from our directors? click this link to enter our company podcast library.

CONNECT® New Tech – Industry Sectors and Careers Specific Roles

Wondering how to put work experience back on the agenda?

Join The Changing Education Group for an in-depth showcase of their work-experience delivery model. Utilising the best-in-class technology and bringing together a vast number of placement-ready employers representing a diverse range of sector areas.

This exclusive session will showcase best practices and provide you with a series of top tips to support you in adhering to the Gatsby and Ofsted agenda.

Matthew and Roman will showcase a truly credible offer for your students. Come and learn how to hit all your benchmarks in one place with the UK’s largest provider of student work experience.

Getting to know your hosts.

Matthew Hodgkinson, Director & Co-Founder at The Changing Education Group.

Matthew is a director and co-founder of The Changing Education Group. He is a former business studies teacher who has previously worked in sales and marketing. Passionate about all things education, he regularly keeps up-to-date on everything from government policies to changes in the national curriculum.

Roman Dibden, Head of Strategic Development & Innovation at The Changing Education Group.

Roman is Head of Strategic Development & Innovation for The Changing Education Group. Working closely with the two directors he is responsible for the design of new initiatives, programmes, and the delivery model. A multi-award winner, he is passionate about delivering the best possible outcomes for the next generation of talent.

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Careers Management

This is your opportunity to learn more about the Connect Software functionality, including key developments which have been designed to enhance the user journey. Through our market research phase, we have improved user functionality.

Why should I attend?

This education and training session will explore all aspects of the CONNECT Web Platform Functionality including.

Students can create their own Careers Activity
Students can view and submit their destination data
Students can delete their pending self-placement submissions
Addition of new Careers Activity types

Reserve Your Place

Stephen Hackney

Director / Co-founder

s.hackney@changingeducation.co.uk

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CONNECT Newsletter 12.11.2021

12.11.2021

Greetings from the CONNECT Team, we hope you have had a productive week.

This week is all about:

Development Headlines

Skills Builder – Student App Assessment Access.
What is new this week?

Changing Education Podcast

Episode 5 – Putting Real Work Experience Back on the Curriculum!

CONNECT Refresher Webinar – missed this week’s webinars?

CONNECT Refresher – Employer Engagement CRM.
CONNECT Refresher – Placement Opportunities CRM.

CONNECT Education & Training – please sign up below.
Next week’s webinars are all about risk management

CONNECT Refresher – Risk Management CRM.
CONNECT Refresher – Risk Management Editor Tool.

Don’t forget to access our Website, Linkedin page, and YouTube channel for all the up-to-date content and resources.

Development Headlines

Skills Builder Integration: The skills builder framework has been fully integrated into CONNECT, Students can complete the self-assessment via the student access URL or via the Student App. You can access the student’s progress via the Skills Panel via the student’s home page.

We are still awaiting approval from Apple and Google for the new version of the app which includes the Skills Builder Assessment. If you want your students to complete the skills builder assessment asap, then please ask them to login via a P.C. / Laptop using their unique URL which can be found on the app email invite or via the student’s home page in the summary or pathways placement section.

Watch the Skills Builder training webinar to find out more by clicking this link

What’s new this week?

Fixed blank risk assessment document view via students’ homepage.
App – Updated save button after selecting 6+ industry interests in the mobile app.
Updated error message when department staff tries to log in with no assigned department.
New error message when trying to delete an employer or role with a student or opportunity attached.
Updated emails so they don’t send as HTML plain text.
Updated automated email CRONS for Risk Assessment, Appraisals, and Feedback.

Question: What’s a CRON?
Answer: The cron command-line utility, also known as CRON, enables us to set up and maintain software environments to schedule jobs to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals.

Podcast Episode 5 – Putting Real Work Experience Back on the Curriculum.

This week host Amos Madra and Company Directors & Co-Founders Matthew Hodgkinson and Stephen Hackney discuss the upcoming webinar on 30th November.

The theme of the webinar is “Putting Real Work Experience Back on the Curriculum.”

To listen to the podcast click this link

Reserve Your Place

CONNECT® Refresher – Employer Engagement CRM (09.11.2021)

CONNECT Refresher – Placement Opportunities CRM (11.11.2021)

Heath and Safety Risk Management

“Empower your staff to have greater control of health and safety risk management for all work placement activity. Manage and track in greater depth to enable quality assurance and compliance of all staff and employer activity.”

We provide customers with the autonomy to create and edit their own risk assessment templates. These are automatically sent out to employers once a student has been placed. CONNECT allows users to create risk assessments for individual employer categories. This ensures that the risk assessment is always relevant to that sector. Our clever system keeps staff constantly updated regarding outstanding Risk Assessment figures.

Reserve Your Place

Stephen Hackney

Director / Co-founder

s.hackney@changingeducation.co.uk

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