Resource Packs

One of the main outcomes of the Balance Project is the conception, design and production of a set of resource packs for use in any higher education institution which have been produced to aid any staff member with the incorporation of a WES Group or Schools Liaison program in their institution.

The resource packs provide the user with helpful start up material, ideas for the continued operation of either task and ideas for activities along with approximated costs and time consumption of each element.

The resource packs are full of helpful information and also case studies of institutions that have tested out the resource packs and implemented one or both concepts into their institution.

The information contained in the resource packs will be available online via this web page in the near future.

Until then basic informatin concerning each type of implementation is provided below:

WES Groups

The Women's Engineering Society (WES) has been helping to run student groups in many instutions across the country for a number of years. The group is designed to bring together the few female engineering students at each institution and provide them with an opportunity to meet one another, to establish a supporting environoment and to encourage them to keep up their studies and enter the engineering industry after graduation. The pack provides details of how to set up a WES Group, hints and tips for making it sucessful and ideas for activities that support the female students without making the divide between male and female more obvious.

Schools Liaison

The main aim of a school liaison method is to attract young people to engineering by providing interesting challenges, talks or competitions based on engineering to the schools local to your institution. This pack provides a number of different ideas that can be arranged as Schools Liaison, indicating how well they work, what type on institution they suit and what benefits can be drawn from them.