Our Work

Embedding, Enhancing and Integrating Employability (E3I)

Description

This CETl aims to promote and develop the following core features within all programmes of study at Sheffield Hallam.

Contact: David Laughton, CETL Director

Email: cetle3i@shu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0114 225 4735

Cores developed:

• The progressive development of autonomy.
• The development of skills.
• Personal Development Planning.
• The inclusion of activities which are similar to those required in external environments.
• Students explicit reflection on their use of knowledge and skills.
• The encouragement of career management skills.
• Engagement with work-related learning.

E3I’s holistic approach advocated 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.
Projects:

The work of the CETL focused on:

• Enhancement of multidisciplinary and business orientated simulations.
• Production of bespoke Career Management skills materials for courses.
• Providing guidance and advice through the validation process in terms of employability.
• Special interest groups working across the university, including enterprise, work based learning, new technology, PDP, career management skills.

Details of specific projects below are available on the E3I website:

Blackboard Nuggets, Career Management Skills Teaching Pack
Employability and non-traditional , CPD learners, Employability in validation and course planning, Employability skills and attributes, Shanghai multidisciplinary project, Simulation of the workplace in design studio projects, Support for diverse students, Supporting validation in the Faculty of Organisation and Management, The European Challenge, Work with secondary schools.

What is being offered to the wider teaching/subject community:

• A newsletter was published on the website every 6 weeks, CETL View
• Network of academics across SHU with links into associated CETLS at other institutions.

Organisations / Institutions

Sheffield Hallam University

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