Resources: Employability policies

19 resources found for "Employability policies"

Embedding employability in education : conference resources: Employability has acquired a central role within policy, strategy and the student curriculum in HE. Education Studies is often automatically with linked with specific vocations such as a career in teaching or with the social care profession but are there wider employability messages we could be emphasising? Should Education Studies embed the wider aspects of employability in their curriculum? This one-day conference in June 2009 explored how...
Beyond the Subject Curriculum: the Employability agenda: A powerpoint presentation given at the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) conference in Daventry on November 26th. The presentation covers subjects including employability, what employers expect from graduates, personal development planning, the National Policy Context and the Enhancing Student Employability Skills Co-ordination Team (ESECT)
Career skills for education students: This free resource has been created to enhance the employability of education students and may be undertaken by students themselves and/or used by staff to import into their programmes of work. It is an interactive course with personal study dimensions which aims to be flexible, accessible and engaging. It is relevant to anyone wanting to enhance their career in education broadly defined, regardless of age, level and mode of study. It is...
Employability in the curriculum: This piece of ESCalate commissioned work was led by Ruth Pilkington of the University of Central Lancashire and looked at how employability can be engaged with across the education studies curriculum in HE. There have been two main areas of focus for the project: 1. A School Employability Forum has been set up to explore employability in education studies. IT develops the learning experience and value of opportunities for developing employability...
Employer concepts of graduate employability: This is an ESCalate research project led by Geoff Hinchliffe of the University of East Anglia. The project aims to research employer perceptions of graduate employability. The HE understanding of employer perception is currently framed in terms of key skills and personal qualities which are then reflected back into degree programmes. There has been insufficient recent systematic research undertaken into employer expectations of graduates (for...
Employability Resources to accompany the Employability publications: These resources are referred to in the Staff and Student Employability publications.If you have any questions please contact Dr Julie Anderson
Promoting employability skills within the curriculum: Presentation by Paul Chin & Dr Julie Anderson at International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (ISSOTL) Conference Sydney, 2007. A major new resource to promote employability skills within the curriculum. ESCalate has a student page dedicated to employability, on this page you will find an online employability module on career skills and a publication to get students thinking about 'How to get the best from your Education...
Unlucky 13 - 13 reasons why I binned your CV: I've got the 20 short-listed applicants in order to select the 12 I'm going to interview for the 2 vacant posts available. I started with 114 applications. Why did I bin your CV? Poor presentation. It looked scruffy - the corners were turned up and it looked as if it had travelled across several other desks before it got to mine. It had a coffee mark on one page. If you cannot be bothered to print me a fresh clean copy then you are not the sort...
Maintaining standards : promoting equality: This is an article written by Tony Brown and published in the ESCalate newsletter in autumn 2007. Many of those with disability hide themselves away, are reluctant to talk about their disability and do not receive the support to which they are entitled. This article analyses the 2007 published report, Maintaining Standards: Promoting Equality of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). The article concludes that the standards have a negative...
Education students, employers and employability : a report on a small scale project in 2004: This paper reports on a project which investigated education courses in terms of the employability of graduates at one English post ’92 institution. The paper examines the initial findings from the project. These include data from a survey of a hundred and twenty seven undergraduates, focus group interviews with both students and staff and a student workshop. A small number of employers also give their views. Employability isn’t an issue for...
Raising student awareness of employability: This resource is the transcript of a video clip on student employability that was shown as part of a presentation at the UCET conference in Daventry on November 26th
CCMS - Centre for Career Management Skills: The main areas of activity of this Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching are: Employability, Careers Education and Career Management Skills (both in the curriculum and outside the curriculum), Elearning/online learning, Interface between Career Management Skills (CMS) and PDP, context-based learning, blended learning, problem based learning
E3I - Enhancing, Embedding and Integrating Employability: E3I's holistic approach advocates embedding and integrating a coherent range of employability features in programmes, benefiting all students, developing attributes needed for success in their chosen paths and lifelong development, and supporting widening access to employment
Topping Out: This is Wendy's third and final article in the ESCalate newsletter, where she summaries her first year after Graduation.I’ve just finished my first full year in my job as a trainer/assessor of Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ) in Community Development Work having graduated only a year ago as a Community Worker myself. So how do I feel one year on, as the graduation of my first group of students fast approaches? On top of the world? Well no,...
Employability and enterprise: This leaflet, published by the HE Academy, underlines the Academy's commitment to helping institutions increase the employability and entrepreneurship of their students. The Academy (and its predecessor organisations) have produced a number of useful, evidence-based publications on student employability that outline different perspectives and approaches as well as giving practical guidance on integrating employability into the curriculum. This...
Enhancement Themes Initiaitive: The Enhancement Themes Initiative aims to enhance the student learning experience in Scottish higher education by identifying specific areas (themes) for development. The themes encourage academic and support staff and students to share current good practice and collectively generate ideas and models for innovation in learning and teaching. The unique Quality Enhancement model has been designed by a 4-way partnership of the Scottish Higher...
Assessing Employability in Continuing Education: Powerpoint presentation on the role of employability in the context of continuing education
Bridges - supporting personal career and professional development through the undergraduate curriculum: Bridges is a Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL) that supports Personal, Career and Professional Development through the Undergraduate Curriculum. It is based at the University of Bedfordshire. It aims to build bridges between student learning and the world beyond the university, thereby paving the way for brighter opportunities and smoother transitions into the global workplace, and life beyond undergraduate study
Ethics and employability: This publication is held in the Resources section of the HEA Website. It aims to show how ethics, far from being antithetical to business, or an optional add-on to any description of employability, is central to both. It looks at the importance of ethical reflection in contemporary business and the professions. It then analyses more closely the meanings of ethics and employability. Finally, the guide looks at how ethics might be embedded in the...