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Please forgive the blatant self-promotion in this post but it’s Friday and I’m feeling a like I have a bit of a cold coming so I’m less ‘perky’ than usual. Dorlee from Social Work Career Development has published an interview which she did with me and...

Published 9 Sep 2011 6:58 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Education, health, personal, psw, shirley ayres, social care, social issues, Social media, social work, social work and technology, social work career development blog, sw4sw, work
Life as a Social Work Student 4 – The Half Way Point

This is a guest post from the student who has contributed since before her course started. She first wrote here about her pre-course shadowing experiences, her initial impressions after a few months on the course, the start of her first placement and...

Published 1 Aug 2011 7:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: blogs about social work, Colleges and Universities, Education, Employment, guest post, masters in social work, personal, reflections of social work student, social care, Social Sciences, social work, social work course, social work in the uk, social work student, studying social work, university, university experiences, what's it like to study social work, work
Life as a Social Work Student 2 – Beginning the Placement

This is another post from a friend of mine who is in the first year of her studies as a social work student. We’ve followed her through pre-course shadowing and initial impressions. She’s now just started her first placement and … Continue...

Published 17 Jan 2011 6:33 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: British Association of Social Workers, british university, Education, health, personal, placement, politics, social care, social issues, social work, social work placement, Student, student social worker, work
Tuition Fees

I’m going vaguely off-topic today but I want to write about the vote to raise tuition fees at English Universities today and why I feel so strongly about it. I have an undergraduate degree and a postgraduate degree. I have … Continue reading →...

Published 9 Dec 2010 6:08 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Education, higher education, Nick Clegg, personal, politics, raising tuition fees, social issues, Student loan, student politics, students, Tuition
Life as a Social Work Student 1

NB: This is a guest post from the now-student who contributed previously about her pre-course observation of a social worker. I hope she’ll continue to update me as long as I can persuade her to . I sneaked in the … Continue reading → Read...

Published 10 Nov 2010 7:01 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Colleges and Universities, Education, Essay, life as a social work student, personal, social work, Student, work
University Interviews

It seems that interview season is under way for social work places at universities. I know a couple of people who have interviews coming up and have asked me for advice, so this is a basic summation of what I’ve come up with and I’d certainly welcome...

Published 26 Feb 2010 6:50 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Education, health, mental health, preparing for social work interviews, social care, social issues, social work, social work course, things to do before interview, work
Failing Students

This week, Community Care prints an article about pressures on universities to pass students who might not ‘meet the grade’. This has always been a concern of mine as there is an incentive on universities to ensure students graduate rather than ensure...

Published 2 Feb 2010 7:34 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Education, social care, social issues, social work, social work education, students, uk, uk social work, university, work
Are Social Work Lecturers out of touch?

This is a question which was raised by the Social Work Taskforce report and challenged by said lecturers in a Community Care article after the report suggested that there is an element of being ‘out of touch with current practice’. When I was studying...

Published 18 Dec 2009 6:41 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: british social work, Education, lecturers out of touch, local government, personal, Research, social care, social issues, social work, social work as academic discipline, social work lecturers, social worker, work
Too easy?

The Guardian reports that the House of Commons Select Committee for Children, Schools and Families earlier this week deemed the Social Work training in the UK to be unfit for purpose. Although I haven’t had much direct contact with training establishments...

Published 1 Aug 2009 6:44 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Academic degree, Education, health, Postgraduate education, select committee, select committee for children families and schools, social care, social work, social work graduates, social work training, uk, work
Fast-track Social Work

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, Ed Balls announced a plan to fast-track other ‘professionals’ like lawyers, teachers and police officers into social work on a one year ‘scheme’. He says that this scheme – which will attract a £15,000 payment to those who...

Published 10 Jul 2009 6:28 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Ed Balls, Education, fast track social worker, personal, politics, Postgraduate education, social care, social issues, social work, training, work
Student Satisfaction Surveys

Over the weekend, I came across a story in The Times which deviated from the MP’s expenses which is increasingly leaving a bitter taste. Students across the country were asked to rate the quality of the teaching on the degrees in which they were currently...

Published 18 May 2009 6:16 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: brunel, Education, Graduate school, higher education, Kent, london, Royal Holloway, Royal Holloway University of London, social work, Swansea, teeside university, unistat, university of swansea, university satisfaction survey, work
Student

A student came to spend the day with me yesterday. She is a first year social work student and she works part time as a home carer which is how she found me. She was chatting to one of the service users she works with about her course and mentioned she...

Published 18 Mar 2009 5:43 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Education, health, local government, Social Sciences, social work, social work theories, work
Of Public Image and Social Work

Community Care launch their ‘Stand Up for Social Work’ campaign today. The aim is to focus on poor media images and misconceptions of social workers and to promote positive social work stories to the media and possibly even, dare I say it...

Published 12 Mar 2009 5:36 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Child protection, community care magazine, deirdre sanders, Ed Balls, ed balls idiot, Education, media campaign, positive images of social work, social work, stand up for social work campaign, sun agony aunt, work
Training Social Workers

I read on the Community Care website yesterday, that the undergraduate Social Work course at Royal Holloway College is being suspended. As I briefly alluded to on my Twitter feed, this surprised me - and my expression of interest is that I went for an...

Published 10 Mar 2009 5:03 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Brunel University, BSc Social work, Education, General Social Care Council, gscc., higher education, Royal Holloway, Royal Holloway University of London, social work, social work BA, social work course, social work training, training social workers, uk, university, work
Training at the Top

Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children has announced a new training package for the Heads of Children’s Services throughout the UK. The Guardian reports that this is to plug the gap of skills as since the creation of the Children’s...

Published 9 Jan 2009 6:59 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: baby p, Child protection, children's services, Ed Balls, Education, Haringey, local government, retraining, social care, social work, United Kingdom, work
On Studying

This is around the time that a new batch of students turn up at the universities to enter training. I am no expert but I have been considering the ‘now’ me, would give to the ‘then’ me as it is now 10 years (gulp) since I started...

Published 23 Sep 2008 5:42 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: advice, Education, howto, reflection, social work, study, university
Oxford, Education and Inclusion

Oxford University and social inclusion aren’t necessarily two phrases that would naturally find themselves in the same sentence - but as was reported in The Guardian at the weekend, Oxford is going to take into account factors such as the applicants...

Published 18 Aug 2008 6:23 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: academia, academic, Advanced Level, Alan Smithers, Buckingham University, Education, GCSE, oxford, Oxford University, politics, privilege, social exclusion, social inclusion, social issues, social worker, uk, university, university entrance
Speaking in tongues

Yesterday seemed much longer than 24 hours. A busy day! I had quite a lot to pack into a relatively short (seeming work day and it felt like I was scuttling all over the place). I visited a man who asked me to explain to him why his life was worth living...

Published 7 Jun 2008 6:29 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Education, elderly, language, Languages, Linguistics, older people, social work, uk, work

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