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Enhancing Graduate Employability is the first book in HLST and BMAF's Enhancing series of case study books.

Examples of good practice in using partnerships with employers to create courses, or, in embedding employability and making it explicit within the learning experience.

The employability case studies on this page were jointly commissioned by the Hospitality, Leisure Sport and Tourism Network and the Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance Subject Centre (BMAF). They show examples of good practice in using partnerships with employers to create courses, or, in embedding employability and making it explicit within the learning experience.

The case studies were turned into in a book, along with 10 case studies from the Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance subject centre. The book, entitled Enhancing Graduate Employability in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport, Tourism is edited by Nina Becket and Patsy Kemp, published 2006 by Threshold Press, Newbury.

Individual chapters can be downloaded in .pdf format below.

Introduction
Rob Ward, Centre for Recording Achievement

Embedding Employability in the Curriculum: Enhancing Students Career Planning Skills (Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3)
Angela Maher, Oxford Brookes University

Placements and Employability in Sport and Leisure Management(Appendix 1, Appendix 2)
Marc Keech, University of Brighton

Enhancing Student Employability Through A Team Exercise On A Visitor Attraction Management Module 
Debra Enzenbacher, Bath Spa University

Enhancing Student Employability: A New Zealand Case Study of Cooperative Education in Sport
(Appendix 1)
Jenny Fleming, Auckland University of Technology and Lesley Ferkins, Unitec

UWIC Academy of Athletics: A Case Study on Addressing Employability within the Total Student Experience
Sean Power, University of Wales Institute Cardiff

Implementing Bournemouth University’s Employability Strategy in the Subject Areas of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism 
(Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3)
Jacqui Gush, Bournemouth University

Integrating Employability and Management Skills into the Tourism Curriculum at Leeds Metropolitan University 
David Hind, Leeds Metropolitan University

The Leisure Professional – A Case Study in Using Online Learning and the Involvement of Employers to Encourage Skills in Reflection and to Support the Development of Skills for Employability
John Buswell and Angela Tomkins, University of Gloucestershire

Students’ Awareness of the Importance of Transferable Skills for Employability 
Petia Petrova and Dorota Ujma, University of Luton

Enhancing Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Employability through PDP
Karen Bill and Will Bowen-Jones, University of Worcester

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