1. First, your projects need to contain a substantial Recommendations chapter. You will notice from the marking scheme that the Recommendations receive 15% of the overall mark. Thus a short paragraph or two vaguely suggesting one or two things is not enough to pick up these marks. These recommendations need to be specific, detailed, costed and, where appropriate, who may be responsible for implementing the recommendation and what resistance they may face. Please note your recommendations need to be feasible and, as such, we are not expecting students to be recommending wholescale changes to organisations based on the findings of your relatively small studies. I have attached a couple of examples from previous projects to give you an idea of the type of recommendations that you may think about and the detailed required. They also may give you an idea on how to present your recommendations although you do not need to follow these examples.
2. Second, your projects also need a reflective report section. This should be a minimum of 500 words (these will not count towards your overall word limit) and should focus on a description and reflection upon the skills you have learned throughout the project process.
3. You also need to submit as separate documents a CPD Record and Plan (I have also attached these templates). I have just had a quick look at some of the interim records that (some of) you submitted earlier this year and whilst some are very good others are not. Remember, we are recommending as a minimum around 50 inputs/records of learning for the whole year. While this may seem a lot it equates to approximately one input/week for your time here. It does not seem unreasonable that you would have at least one significant learning experience each week of your lives whether this is through your University work, paid work, internships, voluntary activities or other social activities. I hope, therefore, to see final (word processed) CPD records that contain a significant number of inputs for your year.
4. In terms of your CPD Plan, you should also describe and detail a number (5-10) key career-related learning goals for the coming 12 months. In other words, from Sept 2016-Sept 2017.
Instruction files
proposal.docx(31,62 KiB)
cpd_development_record_and_development_plan_templates_1_.doc(32,50 KiB)
recommendations_chapter_-_example_2.pdf(1,85 MiB)
recommendations_chapter_-_example_1_1_.pdf(2,47 MiB)
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