Graduate School Global Skills Award

18th June 2012 marked the culmination of this year’s Global Skills Award (GSA) with a reward ceremony in Woolf college attended by over 100 students. After some fantastic presentations from some of GSA the students, Diane Houston Dean of the Graduate School presented everyone with a certificate and presentation pen. This year 176 students successfully completed the award attending a Monday evening lecture series on a variety of global and political themes and a series of employability themed workshops.

Feedback on the night was very supportive, Gary Goldfinch from Politics and International Relations commented “I really enjoyed the GSA, it really gave me some useful life skills. Because I have worked in business before I know that the skills covered by the programme were useful.” Emma Wilkins from the School of English enjoyed the workshops especially; “The GSA was fantastic, it was a great opportunity the lectures were very interesting... My favourite was the workshop element of the award. I really enjoyed the workshops they were fantastic across the board.”