International Women's Day

EU Parliament marked the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day (Tuesday 8 March) with a debate and vote on two resolutions tabled by the Women's Rights Committee: one on gender equality and the other on female poverty. A third resolution, on reducing health inequalities, was also adopted.  Read More

Police pay review calls for end to special payments

An independent review of police pay and conditions in England and Wales has called for the abolition of a series of allowances and special payments.
Tom Winsor's report recommends making savings of £60m a year in overtime.  Mr Winsor says his recommendations will produce overall savings of £485m in three years - and reinvestment in the "most important police jobs" would mean fewer posts would be lost than Acpo forecasts.  Read more

Law Students Network Birmingham

Forum about the Legal Profession - 60 spaces
Date 14th March 2011
Time 6-8pm (arrive 5.45pm prompt)
Venue  Eversheds Birmingham
For more information and to book

Interested in a career in TV production

The BBC Production Trainee scheme opens 1st March, closing date 14th March.  For More information and to apply

Have you considered participating in the Mentoring Scheme?

We currently have mentors available in the following sectors/companies:- Funding & bid management, Environment Agency, HR, Engineering, Design & built environment, Transport, Physiotherapy, Dementia care, Business start up, Training and Accountancy.  If you are interested, come along to the information session 12-1pm on Friday 4th March in N401.

Internships at JUSTICE

Internships at JUSTICE
Justice are now inviting applications for their Summer Internship Programme 2011
Summer interns undertake legal research in one of JUSTICE's main areas of policy work: human rights, criminal justice or EU justice and home affairs. For this reason they are seeking applications from law graduates only. This includes people who expect to have completed a law degree or conversion course by the time they start their internship. Successful applicants should be able to demonstrate familiarity with relevant UK law and institutions.  More information

TAKE PART IN FLUX 2011

What are you doing on 11-12^th April 2011?  Want to boost your employability skills and potentially win £500 cash?  Join our team and represent the University of Derby at FLUX 2011.

What is FLUX?  In a nutshell, teams of six spend 36 hours solving real business problems with help from experts from some of the UK’s most dynamic companies, in an Apprentice meets Dragon’s Den-style competition. FLUX is open to all who would like to challenge themselves and boost their employability skills. More than 60% of the 30,000 students who have taken part over the last 4 years were from non-business related subjects.

What do you win? The title of FLUX National Champions 2011 and £500 cash each. Plus you boost your employability skills, meet top-class recruiters, enhance your CV, improve interview skills, meet new people and have a great time!

Where and when? FLUX 2011 takes place on 11-12th April 2011 in the historic city of Bristol.

If you are interested in taking part and you would like to register for our information event which will be held on Thursday 3rd March 12-1pm, room to be confirmed, you can also contact the University of Derby Career Development Centre at: careers@derby.ac.uk

We look forward to hearing from you.