Additionally, the Unit offers a short course on Presentations Skills aimed at giving postgraduates some guidance on how to be effective when giving short formal inputs into any of the above teaching situations. Most of the training is organised in the Autumn and Spring Terms.
Training is delivered in one of two ways.
If a School has more than eight postgraduates who need training, the Unit will provide a specific tailored programme of training for that group of students. This tailored course can include some or all of the above elements as appropriate, and would normally be either a half-day or full day depending on what is included. For those Schools with fewer than eight students who require training, the Unit offers a series of open courses on the above topics. These courses will include participants from different disciplines, and to that extent they are by necessity more general in nature than the tailored courses. Our preference is for tailored courses, and in Schools that have a Departmental structure every attempt will be made to ensure that we run a single School course.