Student Challenges & Opportunities by Jez Bate

2025-09-30 10:11:42 UTC

Synchronize the modules of the APM course, reference key messages from each module into a combined APM presentation.

Active learning

2025-09-30 11:18:16 UTC

Physical activities that make students/participants move to undertake a task

Overload of too much information

2025-09-30 14:05:02 UTC

Henrik

The opportunity to change, do things differently, innovate, believe in their ambition to do things differently.

2025-09-30 14:05:59 UTC

Gamification

2025-10-03 10:25:43 UTC

Students enjoy being placed in hypothetical scenarios and some elements of gamification, which tests both knowledge and decision making skills.

Mixed cohort

2025-10-03 10:27:36 UTC

With a mixed cohort of students it can be hard for able students to be stretched on topics/approaches they already know well, whereas other students at the same time can feel completely out of their depth...both scenarios can be demotivating for students.

Visualising invisible things, like noise, ultrafine particulate matter, and the volumetric density of hydrogen.

2025-10-03 10:29:47 UTC

I think this is a common challenge, regardless of discipline.

Time management

2025-10-06 10:42:59 UTC

Role playing exercises

2025-10-06 10:43:14 UTC

Political implications for the industry

2025-10-06 10:44:18 UTC

Case Studies and Plays

2025-10-06 18:13:38 UTC

Give students the opportunity to 'live' the big variety of stakeholders that they must form effective working relationships with when the work in industry (Rich)

Presentation and Communication Skills

2025-10-06 18:15:49 UTC

We assess students' presentations in some modules and the group project but we don't provide training in presentation skills (Rich).

Effective Communication

2025-10-06 18:18:02 UTC

This is a key skill that recruiters look for but some students seem to feel that technical expertise is all they requite to get a job. They don't much opportunity to practise this (Rich).