The Department
The department is Worcester Business School of which Computing is one part. There are currently 867 undergraduate students within the Department - Home, European and International. Approximately 43% of entrants are local, 20% have a declared disability, 80% are of white ethnicity and 73% enter with 'A' levels or equivalent qualifications, 75% of full time students are classed as young and 75% of part time entrants are classified as mature. The Business School has predominantly undergraduate students (undertaking a suite of Business Management and Computing courses) but with an increasing postgraduate portfolio plus continuing professional development opportunities.
There have been a number of changes within the department over the last couple of years. These are namely: a new head of department, personnel changes in a usually static staff profile, changes to the course provision and introduction of a one year placement opportunity, to cite but a few.
The Computing Section consists of a small full-time team of tutors, with support from hourly paid part-time colleagues. Staff expertise includes information systems, multimedia, games and networks.
Staff development, peer review, team teaching, cross-department initiatives (arts, digital arts, education, sport, health) all form part of daily life within the department.
Regular use is made of technologies for learning and teaching, including interactive whiteboards, MP3 lecture recordings, remote mouse, VLE, interactive electronic voting system as well as Jaws and Supernova assistive technologies.
