Category: postgraduate

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Postgraduate Teaching Assistant opportunities

Are you looking for the next step after your degree?

Are you interested in a career in academia?

Do you want to do your own research and gain teaching experience within the School of Computing?

Then our Postgraduate Teaching Assistant opportunity could be for you!

We are seeking enthusiastic and inspiring individuals to undertake a PhD in the School of Computing (with the fee waived) whilst holding a fixed term post teaching on our Computer Science degrees.

Full details are available on the job advert; interested applicants should act now as this post will close on 12th February.  

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Interested in working in China?

China Career Gateway starts next Monday 19th October. This annual career development programme is designed to enhance students’ knowledge of the UK and Chinese labour markets and help you understand how to make effective job applications in both countries. Last year, over 300 individual students participated in the programme, with 98% of survey respondents recommending the programme to a friend.   

This year, the programme will be moving online and will be delivered as a 5-week Canvas course. The majority of content will be asynchronous, for you to work through at a convenient time, with new content being released every Monday from 19 October. 

The programme is open to all UG and PG students from China including PGRs, as well as other students with an interest in working in China post-graduation. While you are encouraged to participate in the full programme, you are also welcome to engage in content which is of most relevance to you.

You can view further information about the programme here.  

You can also sign up to participate in the programme directly in Canvas. 

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Software Engineer Internship, Tokyo

Open to undergraduate, masters and PhD computing students,  a 6-8 week internship with HENNGE, one of the first Japanese IT ventures based in Tokyo, Japan. Owning over 73% market share in the whole of Japan, HENNGE is the #1 cloud-based security provider.

Join us for a unique 6-8 week internship that offers personal and professional development and experience in working in a Japanese company with the most global working environment, under the direct supervision of our experienced Cloud Product Development engineers.

As our business continuously grows and expands, we are looking for talented engineers (front-end, back-end, data) to join our team in Tokyo.

Further details on Newcastle University Careers Service job platform My Career and the company website: https://hennge.com/global/

All conversations in the office will be done in English (Japanese is not required).

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Interested in developing teaching and communication skills?

Code First: Girls are looking for volunteer instructors and ambassadors to run or promote free community coding courses at Newcastle University this autumn.
The programme aims to get more women in tech and is a great opportunity for developing teaching and influencing skills.  Instructors come from a variety of coding backgrounds and include computer science postgrads with programming experience, freelance developers and university lecturers.
Courses run once a week for 8 weeks on a weekday evening for 2 hours, Monday-Thursday and all  participants are aged 18 or above.  Further information and application details can be found online