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Student volunteering is growing in the UK and elsewhere, and there is an ongoing debate about whether it is really “self-evidently a ‘good thing’” or there is a greater need for reflection to determine whether this statement is true (Holdsworth and Quinn, Studies in Higher Education, 35(1), 113–127, 2010). This paper presents a personal reflection of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) volunteering as a potential route to increasing Computing student’s employability.
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Turner, S. (2016). Enhancing Computing Student Employability Skills Through Partnership Working in STEM Outreach. In: Kassel, S., Wu, B. (eds) Software Engineering Education Going Agile. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29166-6_10
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