I thought I would look again at our Report and the idea of Employability as it is used in the FE and Skills Sector, now with the benefit longer hindsight. It is usual to see how the discussion about the role of FE, particularly in higher circles always starts with the success rates argument as … Read more
Dr Michael Malone (Director of Curriculum and Information Services) and Paula Philpott (Head of Learning Academy) at the South Eastern Regional College have written a short case study entitled “Get the Edge – enterprise week”: Summary Giving our students the edge is a key priority as we seek to provide students with a range of … Read more
Ian Deamer and Emma Purnell of Plymouth University have written a case study for our blog, entitled “Working Together: Enhancing Employability through ePortfolio Based Authentic Assessment”: Summary A second year module within the Faculty of Business at Plymouth University uses ePortfolios to support both individual and group assessments to enhance student’s employability skills. One of … Read more
In our recently published report “Technology for Employability“, we proposed a 7-dimensional model to describe the “employable student” covering: Basic work readiness Professional skills and knowledge High level capabilities Key student attributes Authentic learning experiences Lifelong employability in a digital world Lifelong learning capabilities We thought it would be useful to take this a stage … Read more
For those of you attending Jisc’s DigiFest 2016, we would like to invite you to come along to our workshop “Working in Partnership to develop students’ employability”. We’ll be exploring the twin themes of developing student employability and partnership working between students, staff and employers. James Kieft, Group Learning and Development manager at Activate Learning … Read more
Lisa, Geoff and myself were a bit daunted when we found out that we had 400 registrations for our Webinar on the 25 January, but when everyone started introducing themselves in the text chat, it was so exciting to see people from so many different roles and from across the HE, FE and skills sectors. … Read more
We had a large number of participants in our Webinar on the 25 January and there were many questions asked – we were not able to respond to all of them in the time available, so I’ve put together some brief responses to the questions asked in the text-chat and if anyone would like to … Read more
Report The “Technology for Employability” report has now been officially launched and can be downloaded from the Jisc study web-site https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/developing-student-employability As well as the full report, you can also download the following: Quick read version of the report – http://bit.ly/employability-summaryreport A document with just the HE case studies – http://bit.ly/employability-HE-casestudies A document with just … Read more
The great contribution of using technology in its broadest sense to learning is that it has passed the management of it to the person who wants to learn. In the world of work, the internet is the place of crowdsourcing knowledge and ideas, and we all ‘learn’, all of us, every day. The reason people … Read more
Higher education has really got to grips with the idea of every student acquiring a set of demonstrable personal attributes during their course of study. It goes to the idea of education developing and presenting the person and not just the skills. Greenwich University is a case in point who have 13 of them, split … Read more