Graduate Apprenticeship Degree Programmes

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow are looking forwad to the graduation of the first Graduate Apprenticeship in Software Engineering cohort, in summer of 2022. Graduate Apprenticeships are work-based degrees, awarding a qualification equal to the standard academic route through Computer Science with substantial industry experience to boot.

The degree has been developed from scratch, drawing in research from international best practice concerning work-based learning, communities of practice, active learning and more. The work has been supported by international visits, large scale industry consultation and extensive literature review across several areas, all contributing to the development of a programme which we believe to provide an excellent learning experience for students and a valuable investment for employers.

More information about the development of this programme can be found on the CCSE pages under Work Based Learning, and information on the programme itself can be found on the University's main pages under Software Engineering (Graduate Apprenticeship).

Publications

Sebastian Dziallas, Sally Fincher, Matthew Barr, and Quintin Cutts. 2021. Learning in Context: A First Look at a Graduate Apprenticeship. In 21st Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 19, 1–11.

Sally Smith, Ella Taylor-Smith, Khristin Fabian, Matthew Barr, Tessa Berg, David Cutting, James Paterson, Tiffany Young, and Mark Zarb. 2020. Computing degree apprenticeships: An opportunity to address gender imbalance in the IT sector? In 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE Press, 1–8.

Matthew Barr and Jack Parkinson. 2019. Developing a Work-based Software Engineering Degree in Collaboration with Industry. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 9, 1–7.

 

Short Papers and Posters

Matthew Barr and Derek Somerville. 2020. Preparing Software Engineering Apprentices for Industry. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 310.

Derek Somerville, Quintin Cutts, Matthew Barr, and Jack Parkinson. 2020. Addressing mixed levels of prior knowledge by individualising learning pathways in a Degree Apprenticeship Summer School. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Education Practice 2020 (CEP 2020). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 1–5.

Joseph Maguire, Quintin Cutts, Jack Parkinson, Matthew Barr, and Derek Somerville. 2019. Devising Work-based Learning Curricula with Apprentice Research Software Engineers. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 313.