Developing your skills further

We provide many opportunities to improve your employability beyond your course. Taking part in a range of activities can help you to build your skills, decide on a future path, and provide employers with evidence of your suitability for a job. Employers tell us that they want to see students who have thrown themselves into life and made the most of their time at university, and the University of Worcester will give you the chance to show future employers the full range of your experiences. To demonstrate its commitment to this, the University scholarship scheme offers a bursary to take part in a range of activities such as community based volunteering or arts and sports related, and Sports Scholarships are on offer in hockey, basketball and cricket in partnership with local top clubs.

If you are creative and entrepreneurial you could consider taking part in the Worcester Ideas Network, a student led society that encourages you to think of new business ideas and enter competitions. The Enterprise hub runs a series of events to stimulate entrepreneurial activity, with the Business Ideas competition rewarding new ideas.  If you would like to take this further, the SPEED programme now runs as a module, and will help you develop your business with a bursary of up to £3,000 bursary and business start up support available.

In an increasingly competitive jobs market, employers will look for qualities which will set apart one applicant from the others.  If you have been on an overseas exchange, you will be perceived as having useful transferable skills as well as broad horizons and an adaptable approach to life and work. We have Erasmus agreement with a range of European countries and you could study abroad for a semester. There is also a semester abroad in the United States. Our Language Centre can help you build up your skills prior to your exchange with courses being offered in classes in Arabic, French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, Polish and Spanish. These courses cater for people with a GCSE or equivalent level in French who want to continue using the language and improve their skills and participants will be aim to become independent users of the language and develop their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

Further opportunities to develop crucial skills and experience are available through the Students’ Union. There are promoted through the Info-fair in Induction Week where opportunities are given to students to sign up to local community initiatives or get involved in our volunteering week. Opportunities on campus include writing the student newspaper “The Voice” or getting involved in student societies that work with the community such as “Sunday Sport”, “Kids Club”, “RAG” and the drama production of “LOCO Show Co”.

Other opportunities to develop your communication, organisation and leadership skills can be explored through the Students' Union by active membership of societies or by becoming a course representative.