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What is Employability?
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Yorke 2006:5
– Employability as demonstrated by the graduate actually obtaining a job
– Employability due to the student being developed by his or her experience of higher education (a curricular and perhaps extra-curricular process)
– Employability in terms of the possession of relevant achievements (and, implicitly, potential).”
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Yorke
• “a set of achievements – skills, understandings and personal attributes – that make graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations”
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Employability Agenda
Since Dearing Report (1997)
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What is the Employability agenda?
• Mandelson – Pushed “Civilisation and Competition” - HE to ensure undergraduates “acquired” employability to gain graduate jobs (BBC 2009)
• Coalition increases competition and marketisation of HE
Browne Review (2010) and White Paper (2011)
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Browne Review 2011, White Paper 2011 and Wilson
Review 2012Link undergraduate courses directly to graduate jobs -Courses to develop employability for specific graduate jobs and show evidence through published material.
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Little Difference between Labour and Coalition in terms of their
concept of employability
Dominant Models:Skill acquisition to meet employers’ needs
Human capital theory – links government policy and HE together with employment growth
Seek and value employers’ definition of graduate employability and employers’ view of current undergraduate provision
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Little Difference• work placements and work experience key
requisite for graduate employability
• Graduate employability measured 6 months after graduation
• Believe HE and industry should work closer together to develop employability for graduate jobs within undergraduate degrees
• Student as consumer/student in driving seat/student voice – however little research (compared to employers ) with students
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Research with Graduates
68 students from pre and post 1992 (graduating 2006-9)
Through blog with “The Guardian” and “Facebook”
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Creative work
Creative work is not defined to one job – complicated
• Single artist may work in education, community sector and business worlds
• Work in SMES, self-employed, sole-trader, PAYE – mix of few or all
• Freelance, project, contracting, commissioning, paid on results etc
• Portfolio careers – Bit of everything all the time throughout career
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Creative Employability
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The graduate View
Industry in the curriculum – professionals involved in the curriculum
Networking contacts – for creative stimulation, work opportunities and collaboration
Feedback from others in and outside the curriculum
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The graduate View Lecturers as practitioners – working and
teaching in the industry
Specific industry related skills - Theory and Practice
Modules and show case projects related to industry work
Experience – work experience, placements,
internships etc
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The graduate View
Careers advice and guidance tailored to the specific industry
Graduate attributes needed for work
Student reflection/identity in industry
Student’s potential as creative artist in industry
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Obstacles?
• Money
• Contacts
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Implications for Staff
What is your philosophy within your discipline?
What will this affect?
• Pedagogic practice (the way the subject is taught)
• Subject content (what is taught)
• Partnerships (who we need)
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Employability is not getting a job
• Yes it seems employability can be enhanced as part of the degree experience.
• However getting a job has socio-economic
factors – class, race, gender, reputation of university, personal background and family histories, location, money etc etc
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References
Browne, J. (2010). Securing a sustainable future for higher education. Independent Review of Higher Education & Student Finance in England.
Department for Business Innovation and Skills (2011) Higher Education. Students at the Heart of the System
Higdon, R (2011) A grounded theory approach to employability, the creative economy and undergraduate degrees in British Universities. SRHE Annual conference.
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Yorke, M. (2006). Employability in higher education: what it is-what it is not, Higher Education Academy.
Yorke, M. and P. Knight (2006). Embedding employability into the curriculum. York, The Higher Education Academy.
Wilson, T. (2012). A Review of Business-University Collaboration
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