Exeter Leaders Award Help

The Exeter Leaders Award focuses on leadership and achievement. Participants must demonstrate their leadership skills for a prolonged period of time in a formal leadership role whilst studying at Exeter. In addition to your leadership role, you must complete and submit an online application form, attend skills sessions and deliver a presentation.

Completing The Exeter Award is a pre-requisite for registering for the Exeter Leaders Award. However, there is nothing to stop you attending Leaders Award activities in readiness – they will then show as completed in your Leaders Award profile when you register.

For more information please visit http://www.exeter.ac.uk/exeterleadersaward/

There is no time constraint for completing The Exeter Leaders Award whilst you are a current student. Once you graduate you are no longer eligible.

Don't forget... key skills sessions, Presentation to Panel and other training events do not normally run during the vacation period so the last chance you have to complete will be during your final term. However, we strongly advise you to plan ahead and complete your Award in plenty of time before then. Don't leave things until the last minute to complete your Award, we cannot guarantee there will be places available on the events you require.

No, The Exeter Leaders Award gives you University recognition for your extra-curricular activities and does not count towards your degree. Completing The Exeter Leaders Award will, however, appear on your Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) as long as you complete it before the end of your studies. For undergraduates then this is usually the end of the Summer term. Information about the HEAR is available at www.exeter.ac.uk/hear

 INTO students studying for the International Year One or Graduate Diploma programmes are eligible for the Exeter Leaders Award.

The Exeter Leaders Award is open to taught postgraduates, but PGCE students would need to ensure they complete all relevant activities before they start their teaching practice.

Each Journey goal should indicate what is required to complete it. The link from the event goal should take you to a list of events with that label  

We monitor event bookings and when it is clear that key Exeter Leaders Award  sessions are fully booked, we try and arrange more for that term where possible. Check the events in Handshake regularly to see if any additional sessions have been added, and also make sure you add your name to the waiting list for any fully booked event you are interested in. 

Members of staff may take several days to upload the attendance data depending on their commitments. Please be patient and do not chase any outstanding events on your profile until seven days have passed since the event.

Occasionally errors may occur in the upload process or students may arrive after the attendance marking has taken place. If you receive a false 'non attendance warning' and/or your record is incorrect after seven days following the event, please email us to ask for a correction giving full details of the event careers@exeter.ac.uk

Note that it is your responsibility to ensure your Award profile is up to date and after three months have elapsed we can no longer update attendance records.

Yes. The events will be added to your profile and will remain there whilst you are at University just in case you decide to do the Award(s).

We aim to mark application forms within three weeks. Please do not email us to chase this up until at least three weeks have expired since you submitted it.

We do not currently suggest a word count for the Leaders Award application but you should approach this in a similar way to your Exeter Award application. Treat it as if it were part of the job application process and give clear, detailed answers to all the questions in order to demonstrate a depth of understanding and reflection. This means thinking in terms of paragraphs, rather than a sentence or two, for each question. 

When you complete your Award your certificate will be emailed to your university email address about 3 weeks after completion. 

Many Universities offer some kind of employability or extracurricular award and employers are unlikely to be familiar with the precise content of the Exeter Leaders Award.

For this reason, on CVs we recommend you briefly spell out what you actually did to achieve your Award, under a section headed, for example, ‘other qualifications’ or ‘achievements’ or ‘Interests and extracurricular activities’.

You could describe the Award as recognition from the University for your extracurricular achievements, and for developing your leadership and employability skills. Bullet point the components of your Award together with a brief summary of what you gained/learned.