Margaret Ross

Margaret is Emeritus Professor of Software Quality at Southampton Solent University, She is an active member of the BCS, being on various Committees, including the BCS Council, Vice Chair of the Quality SG, the e-Learning SG and the GreenIT SG; and Chair of the Hampshire Branch (Chairman)

She was awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor from Staffordshire University in 2004, became a Freeman of the City of London and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Engineers in 2001, received an Honorary FBCS in 2007 and the BCS John Ivison medal in 2011, and best of all, a MBE at Buckingham Palace in 2009 from Prince Charles for services to Higher Education

Development of Transnational Work-Based Learning in the Curriculum

Al Monger1, Jing Lu1, Jennifer Muskett1, Margaret Ross1, Jacqueline Tuson1, Toni Saraiva2, Martina Emke3
Abstract

This pilot HEA/UKCISA “Connections” project undertaken primarily from mid-February to June 2012 draws by interview upon the experiences of technology students and their host employers on work placement abroad, and the perspectives of other surveyed students and employers, to contribute to the development of transnational/international WBL in the curriculum. It extends the “transnational employability” theme of related University and Leonardo Mobility funded collaborative projects involving the Technology School, “Bildungszentrum fuer Informationverarbeiteende Berufe” – translated as the “Educational Centre for Information Processing Professions” and EISC Ltd since September 2010.

Outcomes from the project include a life-cycle model for supporting transnational work placement in the curriculum, a first attempt to attract students to work placement using social media, a brief analysis of perspectives of the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to work globally with reference to a published “graduate attributes” framework, example internationalised learning activities related to graduate employability skills development

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