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Enhancing Graduate Employability: Embedding Employability Skills Development in the Curriculum

Description

The Enhancing Graduate Employability project sought to enhance the employability of hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism students in ten partner institutions and to make available a range of tried and tested teaching, learning and assessment (TLA) interventions/materials for embedding employability into the curricula of other HE providers.

Contact: Ms A Maher

Email: amaher@brookes.ac.uk

A curriculum audit was undertaken across the partner institutions and proposed TLA strategies were devised accordingly. The resulting action research case studies are focusing on topics such as the role of PDP to audit and evidence employability skills; the development of employer mentoring schemes; the introduction of an entrepreneurship module and the use of problem based assessment. Pre and post-intervention data was collected across each institution via an Employability Skills Survey as an indicator of student awareness of employability and ability to articulate employability skills.

Full details of all the partner case study proposals can be found on the project website. The case studies, published in 2007, serve as practical examples of the varied ways in which employability development can be embedded, enabling educators to implement and modify interventions within their own institutions. In addition, a Good Practice Guide, offering guidance on generic aspects of curriculum audit, employability strategy development and techniques for embedding employability in the curriculum, was also made available in 2007.

Organisations / Institutions

Oxford Brookes University, Sheffield Hallam University

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