Stakeholder newsletter: October 2006
What will life be like in 2010?

Story 1: Jane Turner: The student

e-learning at home

Fourteen year old Jane Turner is studying on a multimedia course at school including an industry certified web development component. As part of her course, Jane spends one afternoon a week for two terms at a web design and e-commerce company contributing to one of their projects for a leading online consumer brand specialising in youth fashion. When at the company premises, Jane is able to complete her learning log and receive support from her tutor back at school through the school’s online learning service. Back at home, she completes and sends her assignment through to her teacher. Her parents are able to check her work placement commitments on the school’s connected community system.

Jane’s older brother, seventeen year old Joe Turner, elected to go from school into a specialist ‘games development’ apprenticeship. Joe works in a local interactive media company and receives on-the-job training as well as industry certified 3D design training at college, working towards a Foundation Degree in Animation and Games. The company has less than thirty employees and receives personnel support as part of the apprenticeship scheme to enable them to manage Joe’s placement.

 
The company down the corridor is an IT service and training company and also has a young person on placement, but this time on a JIGSAW scheme offering a six month work placement combined with on-the-job training.

Mary, the company’s JIGSAW trainee, was working in a warehouse after leaving school with few qualifications, but is now training to be an IT technician. One of the qualifications Mary did have leaving school was a Microsoft Office Specialist certificate so she was quickly able to adapt to the working environment, writing up reports and keeping a log of activity on an Excel spreadsheet.

Across the road, at the local university, Neelu Ahmed is on an IT degree course and is currently working on a joint project with the Nanotechnology Masters Course. Earlier in her degree, during the project management component, Neelu was studying the project management standards used by a leading Regional IT development company.

Read more about Neelu Ahmed in the next Newsletter in Story 2: The Citizen


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last updated: 01.10.2006