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A Future Focus Employability for English
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A Future Focus – Employability for English
Stuart Norton Senior Adviser (Learning & Teaching)
Monday 16th September 2019
@S_J_Norton
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Overview
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• Employability context
• What is employability?
• Shifting expectations of HE
• English & Employability
• Looking forward
• Points to consider
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Context & the strategic importance
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• The Media – the value of Higher
Education?
• ‘Consumerisation’ of HE
• League Tables
• Graduate Outcome Survey
• Longitudinal Education Outcomes
(LEO data)
• UG & PG
• Fiscal changes
• National Student Survey (NSS)
(student satisfaction, engagement)
• OfS Strategy and Business Plan
(April 2018)
• Teaching Excellence Framework
(TEF)
• Uni Stats
• Student Choice
• Sustainability
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Context & the strategic importance
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A contested topic
• Despite the use of the term ‘employability’ at the highest level, it still remains
a contested term used in a range of contexts (Hillage & Pollard, 1998).
• Gazier, (1998:298) (Cited in McQuaid & Lindsay, 2005:197) states
employability is ‘a fuzzy notion, often ill-defined and sometimes not defined
at all.’
• Philpott (1999) describe employability as a ‘buzzword’ which is often used
but which is interpreted in a number of ways.
• Williams et al. (2015) highlight the definition of employability has evolved
over the years and still continues to be contested.
• Gedye & Beaumont (2018) Employability is elusive and there have been a
wealth of interpretations across different disciplines
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Defining Employability
“A set of achievements - skills, understandings and
personal attributes - that make individuals more likely
to gain employment and be successful in their chosen
occupations, which benefits themselves, the
workforce, the community and the economy.”
HEA ESECT working definition: Yorke (2006:8).
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Examples of models of/for employability
• DOTS – Law and Watts, (1977/1996)
• USEM - Knight and Yorke (2004)
• SOAR – Kumar (2007)
• CareerEDGE – Dacre Pool & Sewell (2007)
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• Career Adaptability – Saviskas (1997/2013)
• Graduate Capital Model – Tomlinson (2016)
• Graduate Employability 2.0 – Bridgstock (2016)
• Literacies for Life – Bennett (2017)
Examples of models of/for employability
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• It’s complex - but important
• Academics need to be convinced of the
value
• We have a number of models
• We describe how we ‘do it’
• There is very little in relation to the
praxis involved
What does the research tell us?
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More than just a job:
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‘EMPLOYMENT’ NOT ‘EMPLOYABILITY’
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Employability inner dial (2015)
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Employability as a…
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Individuals and society are
expecting a different return on their
investment in a university degree
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Change is accelerating
Some jobs will disappear, others
will grow and jobs that don’t even
exist today will become
commonplace. What is certain is
that the future workforce will need
to align its skillset to keep pace.
(Gray, 2016)
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(Just some of the) Inventions since 2000
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Looking forward
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Department of Education Planning for Success Survey (2017)
Main activity at DLHE and the PSS amongst those who had undertaken work
experience placements as part of their degree and those who did not
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Points to consider: • Enhancing employability through all aspects of the formal and informal
curriculum
• Prioritising student, staff and external stakeholder engagement
• Integrating a range of professional experience opportunities
• Interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary approaches
• Developing a truly inclusive approach
• Recording and articulating the employability ‘road map’ for each and every
student
• Developing a consistent approach that has connectivity across the
programme
• Don’t forget your beach ball…
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Future focus
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Employers aren’t interested in what
your students know.
Employers are interested in what they
can do with what they know.
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Thank you – Questions?
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