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Welcome to the Education section of the ICE South East England website.
Current Opportunities
Ambassadors: Learn how ICE members can help promote civil engineering in schools through the Science and Engineering Ambassadors (SEA) scheme
Current Opportunities
Hampshire
11 November 2008 Careers Fair
Bohunt School
Hampshire
17.30 – 20.30 Careers evening for years 9 and 10 and parents. One or two graduates required to meet students and parents and explain what they do as civil engineers and how they became civil engineers and hand out appropriate material. Handouts and promotional products provided. Refreshment provided at beginning of the evening. Approximately 550 students.
20 January 2009 Career Choices Day
Brookfield Community School
Southampton
09.40 -10.40 and 11.55 -12.55
2 x 1 hour presentations required covering:
Qualifications and training
Starting pay
Career prospects and availability of jobs
The positives and negatives of the career
Personal, Technical and Transferable skills
- Marketing materials supplied
Buckinghamshire
6 November 2008 Careers Fair
Wycombe High School
High Wycombe
18.00 – 20.30 Careers evening for years 10 to 13 and parents. One or two graduates required to meet students and parents and explain what they do as civil engineers and how they became civil engineers and hand out appropriate material. Handouts and promotional products provided. Approximately 150 - 200 students.
05 February 2009
Careers Fair
Dr Challoner’s Grammar School
Amersham
16.00 – 20.00
Dr Challoner’s careers fair for the Challoners girls and boys schools in Amersham. 1500 pupils expected. Two volunteers required to answer questions from students and parents regarding a career in civil engineering.
Berkshire
12 November 2008 Design your Future
Reading
Engaging civil engineering speaker required to give a 5 minute talk on “A day in the life of…” to a large audience of years 8-9 students.
2 x Engineers to man a hands on activity exhibition stand.
Oxfordshire
Any day from September 2008 onwards A handful of schools in the Oxfordshire area are piloting a Diploma in Engineering for 14-19 year olds. They will be looking for engineers who could talk to the students about their jobs, and maybe host a visit to their workplace. Please register interest with Rebecca and STEMNET will put schools in touch when they ask us.
Sussex
11 November Engineering Your Future
Sackville School
East Grinstead
09.00 – 16.00 2 or 3 volunteers required to man a speed dating exhibition stand. Sixth formers taking STEM A levels will be spending 5 minutes with each engineering stand. Civil engineers required to answer and questions on their career and handout relevant marketing material.
21 February 2009
Brighton Science Festival
Hove Park Upper School
All Day We attended this event last year and it was great fun! Engineers required to help man our interactive stand where young people have to build a bridge from 2 A4 sheets of paper and some sticky tape. The bridge is then tested for load bearing with mini marsbars!
We encourage all our volunteers to become a registered Science and Engineering Ambassador (SEA) with STEMNET to ensure that children and ambassadors will all be safe in their experiences with each other.
To become a registered ambassador you just need to fill out a CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) form to allow a CRB check to be completed then attend a 2 hour training session. If there is a group of you STEMNET will come to you to do your training.
Excellence in Schools Outreach – did you know…
This year ICE SEE will be recognising excellence in schools outreach with the Steve Tebb Award. This award has been run for two years in our South branch but is now being extended to our entire region. If you have been involved in promoting engineering to the young then you may be eligible to enter. Application forms will be available in December. For more information in the meantime please contact Rebecca Rayner to find out more.
Please contact Rebecca Rayner if you are interested in joining in any of these schools activities.
Accredited Centres: Provides details of all colleges and universities in the region running ICE recognised Civil Engineering courses
Resources: Find out what additional help is available to both students and members
Diplomas - Article by Construction Skills
There is something new and exciting happening in education! – A new qualification called a DIPLOMA is being introduced ……read on for more
information and to find out how you can get involved with the Construction and
Built Environment Diploma……
What is a Diploma?
Diplomas have been developed to give young people aged 14 to 19 the skills they need to succeed in their working life or further education. This has been done with the help of employers (through the relevant sector skills councils) in order to equip young people with the employability skills they need to progress
their careers.
They provide a rounded education which combines classroom study with learning in a practical environment. They are a unique qualification for young people interested in sector-related learning. Diplomas have been designed in partnership with employers and in response to their views.
All Diploma students study essential functional skills in English, Maths and ICT alongside their chosen discipline. They do a project, specialist learning in a related subject and at least ten days work experience. These qualifications
have been developed by employers, so practical, work-related learning is at the heart of the qualification.
Why should you get involved?
There has never been a better time for employers of all sizes to get involved in
education so please share this with your line manager.
Diplomas will help give you better prepared and more knowledgeable young employees with those skills that all employers need, such as how
to think creatively, problem-solve, communicate, work independently, and how to work as part of a team.
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