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Making a positive difference
Our initiatives make a positive difference to people and communities, locally and globally.
Training health professionals of the future
UWE is helping to shape the health professionals of the future. We are the NHS training partner for the region, training over 1,000 students each year for health organisations such as NHS trusts, PCT’s and voluntary agencies.
We also work with individual services on course development. By working closely with the Great Western Ambulance Trust we were able to better shape our two year Paramedic Science course, ensuring students have the skills they need to be the paramedics of the future.
Regional partnerships
We continue to develop relationships with many new businesses and organisations in the region and have successfully established our Graduate Internship Scheme. The graduate internship with Solsoft Technology in Bristol resulted in offers of permanent work for two UWE graduates, showcasing the ‘real’ benefits of the scheme.
UWE also supports the RELAYS project, which was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education 'Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community' Award for inspiring and up-skilling young people ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Widening Participation
Widening participation is top of the agenda for UWE's Schools and Colleges Partnership Service and the UWE Federation. Both work with schools and colleges in the region to raise awareness of, and access to, Higher Education, and to build educational excellence.
Our students are also playing a key role in supporting widening participation initiatives. Three UWE Media Culture students received high praise for their education programme which aims to make study more appealing to young offenders at Ashfields Young Offenders Institution.
Supporting local and global communities
We continue to forge links with local schools and community groups though UWE Volunteering, the Centre for Sport's Hotshot summer camps and with ongoing knowledge-sharing activities such as the Sharp Shots Animation Competition, which involves animation students working with local schoolchildren and youth groups to produce films to raise awareness of the consequences of drugs, guns and knives.
Did you know?
- UWE was voted Xcel Widening Participation University of the Year.
- UWE's foundation course on working with children, young people and their families is developing professionals to fit emerging job roles.
- UWE was the first university in the UK to sponsor an academy.
Page last updated 20 March 2012