How to enable the employability of university graduates
"Students invest significant resources in coming to university and universities play a crucial role in enabling their students to benefit from this investment and to be employable once they have finished their degree. Giving a platform to the debate about graduate employability from the student...
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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2023, 2023
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Table of Contents:
- 25. Meeting the employability expectations of international students in transition to higher education in the uk / Victoria Wilson-Crane and Linda Cowan
- 26. How partnerships can make a difference to securing jobs for international students / Jacklyn Tubb and Caroline Fox
- Part IX. Insights from around the world
- 27. How England's policy and regulatory levers have shifted accountability for graduate employment / Lizzy Woodfield
- 28. Approaches to developing graduate employability in australia / Judie Kay and Sonia Ferns
- 29. Enabling employability in new zealand / Brett Berquist
- 30. Lessons from Germany / Patrick Glauner
- 31. European university initiative in enabling student success / Renata Tomaskova, Ida Andersson-Norrie, Bice Della Piana, Anna Chudy, Melpo Iacovidou and Colombine Madelaine
- Part X. Institutional response
- 32. Global professional award: A three-year skills development programme / James Forde
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents: Foreword
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. Introduction and context
- 1. Why employability matters / Saskia Loer Hansen and Kathy Daniels
- 2. Whose job is it to make a graduate employable? / Martin Edmondson
- 3. Employability: The student voice / Omolabake Fakunle and Yuchen Xiao
- Part II. What employers want from graduates
- 4. Creating a new university to meet the employability challenge / Ross Renton and Fiona McGonigle
- 5. Developing employability skills through working in a law clinic / Kaye Howells and Sue Jennings
- 6. Problems delivering the skills employers want? Creativity - a case in point / Elaine Clarke
- 7. Mind the gap: Employers' and students' perceptions of skills and knowledge needed by accounting graduates in greece / Efimia Anastasiou, Siobhan Neary and Alison Lawson
- Part III. Employability and the curriculum
- 8. Employer input to curriculum and assessment / Gillian O'Brien and Darren Siggers
- 9. Real work opportunities in the curriculum: Three different approaches / Charles Hancock, Tracy Powell, John Day and Alison Lawson
- 10. Using a professional skills module to develop student confidence / Parminder Johal and Ruth Smith
- 11. Developing an ecosystem: Employability skills and authentic assessments / Sarah Montano
- Part IV. Innovative approaches to career guidance
- 12. Using career pathways to tailor and personalise employability activities / Rebekah Marangon
- 13. The career studio: Peer-to-peer support / Emma Moore and Paul Gratrick
- 14. Supporting employment outcomes for students from asia / Louise Nicol
- Part V. Practical examples of employability activities
- 15. Using social action to support skill development / Fiona Walsh
- 16. The big challenge: Interdisciplinary development of employability skills / Valerie Derbyshire, Laurice Fretwell and Caroline Harvey
- 33. An integrated institutional approach to employability / Dino Willox, Anna Richards and Madelaine-Marie Judd
- 34. A strategic institutional approach to employability / Susan Smith and Emily Huns
- 35. Student experience(s) and an integrated pastoral approach to employability / Matthew Vince and Thea Jones
- Part Xi. A final reflection
- 36. Reflections on 20 years of research on employability and its effect on policy and practice / Helen Higson
- Index
- 17. Modifying the journey to graduate employment through changes to work-based learning / Catherine O'Connor
- Part VI. Enterprise/entrepreneurial opportunities
- 18. 'One for all and all for one': The 3es (employability, enterprise, and entrepreneurship) / Emily Beaumont
- 19. Bseen: Extra-curricular enterprise and entrepreneurship support / Carolyn Keenan
- Part VII. Widening participation
- 20. Employability monsters: Breaking barriers to employability for widening participation students / Dawn Lees and Kate Foster
- 21. Supporting 'first in family' students: My generation career coaching programme / Heather Pasero
- 22. Unlocking the potential of under-represented students / Iwan Williams and Pamela McGee
- 23. Social mobility and London's left-behind graduates / Emily Dixon
- Part VIIi. International students
- 24. Using the net promoter score to understand international alumni satisfaction / Shane Dillon