Despite my best intentions, listed below in the previous blog, it's been a summer of mixed fortunes. We've got some new support in the Employer Engagement team, and crucially, a new Head of Employer Engagement joining us in about six week's time. These are roles I'd hoped to have in place at the project start but for various reasons (staff turnover, recruitment delays) we're only now getting to the level of resource originally planned. So progress has been slow, although we've had some very useful meetings with employers and other universities. I also travelled to Vietnam last month as part of a British Council funded event, to look at best practise in student employability and related issues. I was able to talk about our internships projects and it was fascinating to hear about local engagement with SMEs and placement processes in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi.
Our new Head of Employer Engagement, Richard Mendez, joins us from Leicester University and will take a lead role alongside me on our Transformations project. With this in mind, we're pushing some of our timelines out from autumn this year into spring 2013 so that we get the benefit of Richard's contacts and experience into the project. With quite a few business engagement and employer engagement initiatives firing up, I'm looking forward to the next six months and some real progress on the systems side.
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